Aug 05, 2015 - Sale 2389

Sale 2389 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DESIGNER UNKNOWN "NEVER WAS SO MUCH OWED BY SO MANY TO SO FEW." Circa 1940.
30x19 3/4 inches, 76 1/4x50 1/4 cm. Lowe & Brydone, London.
Condition A-: minor tears along vertical and horizontal folds. Paper.
"The movie-like image shows undecorated sergeant-pilots, rather than commissioned officers, to suggest that the country was saved not by social elites, but by representatives of the entire population" (Paret p. 153). Paret 217.