Nov 14, 2019 - Sale 2524

Sale 2524 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 975
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
A.W. BAYLIS (DATES UNKNOWN) ZIMBABWE / THE RIDDLE OF RHODESIA? 1938.
38 3/4x24 1/2 inches, 98 1/2x62 1/4 cm.
Condition B+: repaired tears at top edge, into image; small tears and losses in margins; restoration over skinning in left border; creases in margins and image. Paper.
Under a midnight-blue sky, an African man holds a rock from the ancient stone village of Great Zimbabwe; he quite literally touches his nation's past, as ghost-like historical figures look down on him from the surrounding stone structures. Little is known about Baylis, who designed at least four posters relating to tourism in Rhodesia.