Oct 26, 2017 - Sale 2459

Sale 2459 - Lot 172

Unsold
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954) THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICE MUSEUM. 1922.
39 1/2x24 1/4 inches, 100 1/4x61 1/2 cm. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd., London.
Condition B+: replaced losses, overpainting and minor staining at edges; repaired pin holes at edges.
Frank Pick, the influential head of publicity for the London Underground, commissioned Kauffer to design a series of posters advertising Museums in the city. "Kauffer's use of subject matter for this series [of four posters for museums] combined geometric theory with realistic imagery" (Art for All p. 134). Kauffer 43.