?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954)
SUMMER SALE AT DERRY & TOMS. 1919.
59¾x38¼ inches, 151¾x97 cm. Condition B: replaced losses, repaired tears, creases and abrasions in margins and image; loss in lower right margin; slight darkening in image; small paper insert in lower left corner.
Kauffer designed 5 posters for the London Department store Derry & Toms. His first, from 1917, borrowed heavily from a design by Ludwig Hohlwein. Hohlwein's influence can be seen here as well, in relation to the poster he designed in 1909 for a regatta on Munich's Starnberger Lake. Rare. MoMA 373.1939, Kauffer / Cooper Hewitt p. 149.
