Nov 10, 2008 - Sale 2161

Sale 2161 - Lot 107

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FREDERICK C. HERRICK (1887-1970) FOR A WIDE PROSPECT AT WHITSUNTIDE. 1922.
39 1/2x24 3/8 inches, 100 1/2x62 cm. Baynard Press, London.
Condition B+: restoration at edges and in lower left corner.
Almost all of Herrick's posters are marked by an elegant Art Deco stylization, and indeed he was the only British artist to participate in the famed 1925 Parisian Exposition Internationales des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes. Not only a poster designer, he was also in charge of the Baynard Press in London. Here he shows a couple enjoying the countryside during a holiday week. Whitsuntide is the week that begins with Whitsunday, seven weeks after Easter.