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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
AUSTIN COOPER (1890-1964)
MAKING ELECTRICAL MACHINERY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. 1930.
40x60 inches, 101 1/2x152 1/2 cm. John Horn Limited, London. Condition B+: repaired tears, creases and restoration in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds.
Austin Cooper was a stylistic virtuoso and a prolific artist, whose first commercial venture was a graphic design studio in his native Canada. His highly-pictorial, Art Deco style received widespread public acclaim and he quickly found work with many of Britain's most important poster-commissioning companies, such as the London Underground, the LNER and the Empire Marketing Board. "The EMB included representations of this world-leading industry in its posters, showing it to be mighty, masterful and technologically advanced" (EMB Posters, np). Cooper's dramatically-lit manufacturing scene, with a glimpse of a factory worker, was designed to illustrate the "economic ties that connected industrial workers in Britain with the rest of the Empire" (ibid.). B.O.5. Issued by the Empire Marketing Board.
