Feb 29, 2024 - Sale 2660

Sale 2660 - Lot 285

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000

EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954)

GREAT WESTERN TO CORNWALL. 1933.


39¼x24¼ inches, 99½x61½ cm. William Brown and Co., Ltd., London.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges, some slightly into image; abrasions in margins; creases in margins and image.

This poster is from "a series of six featuring Devon and Cornwall. Kauffer was one of the many artists influenced by the new European art movements of the early twentieth century . . . his designs made great use of geometrical pattern. 2000 copies of each poster in the series were printed" (Railway p. 40). Kauffer 56 (E.479-1953), MoMA 405.1939, MoMA Kauffer 41.