May 10, 2012 - Sale 2278

Sale 2278 - Lot 101

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954) OUTPOSTS OF BRITAIN. 1937.
20x25 inches, 51x63 1/2 cm.
Condition A.
In 1937, Kauffer designed six posters for Britain's General Post Office, including a series of four called Outposts of Britain, to illustrate that the G.P.O. could reach anywhere in the country no matter how isolated the destination. For each, Kauffer uses an asymmetrical graphic frame of primarily black and blue into which he integrates black and white photographs. Kauffer 241, Modern British Posters p. 119.