May 10, 2012 - Sale 2278

Sale 2278 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954) GILBEY'S INVALID PORT. 1933.
19 3/4x14 3/4 inches, 50x37 1/2 cm. W.A. Gilbey.
Condition A. Paper. Framed.
This is the largest of the seven point-of-purchase posters Kauffer designed for Gilbey's in 1933. It is the only one in the vertical format and the most complex, combining image and typography, rendered via Kauffer's ingenious use of the airbrush. Kauffer 174 , MOMA 415.1939.