FREDERIC HENRI KAY HENRION (1914-1990) PUNCH. Group of 4 posters. Sizes vary. Bradbury Agnew & Co., Ltd. Conditions vary, generally B+ / A-. Born in Germany, Henrion went to Paris to study with Paul Colin and there discovered the work of Cassandre, as well as the Surrealists, which gave him a taste for collage and photomontage. He moved to London in 1939 and quickly became a prominent graphic designer. During World War II he used his talents as a poster designer to support both the British and American war effort. He founded his own studio in 1951 and began working for clients such as British Leyland, KLM, and the London Electricity Board. Highly respected by his peers, Henrion was president of the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) and a teacher at the Royal College of Art and the London College of Printing. Punch, the popular British humor magazine, ran a series of ads emphasizing its broad social appeal. To illustrate this, Henrion provides us with a series of pairs of people and professions melded into one another, à la El Lissitzky's famous image of two children with three eyes. In these images however, the men not only share an eye, but a smile as well, an indication of the universal humor of the magazine.
