Aug 02, 2017 - Sale 2453

Sale 2453 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
DESIGNER UNKNOWN "NEVER WAS SO MUCH OWED BY SO MANY TO SO FEW." Circa 1940.
30x20 inches, 76 1/4x50 3/4 cm. Lowe & Brydone, London.
Condition B+: vertical and horizontal folds; creases in image; minor tear, wrinkles and creases along bottom edge. 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, Pollack p. 248.