?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
DORA M. BATTY (1900-1966) FROM COUNTRY TO THE HEART OF TOWN / FOR THEATRES, DANCES & C. 1925. 39 3/4x24 3/4 inches, 101x63 cm. The Baynard Press, London. Condition B+: repaired tears and creases in margins and corners; abrasions in image. "Her interest in textiles . . . emerges in many of her poster designs for the Underground, in which stylish, confident women are dressed in luxurious outfits executed in great detail" (London Transport p. 141). "Quite a fresh note has been contributed to the famous London Underground Railway posters by Miss D. M. Batty whose subjects for 'Shopping' and 'Theatres and Dances,' both very personal in manner and drawn with sureness and decorative feeling, raise the hope that more may follow on similar lines" (Posters and Publicity 6, ill. 5). Pleasure Trips p. 3.
