?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
FUNNY? 1929.
44x36 1/8 inches. Mather & Co., Chicago. Condition A-: restored punch-holes along top margin. A clown in a bright green, orange, and white outfit is slipping on a banana peel illustrating the idea that even for someone whose job it is to be funny, pranks are no joke; lettering in green, orange, and red against a yellow background. From 1923-1929 the Mather Company produced a series of some 60 posters which owner Charles Mather deemed "Constructive Organisation Posters." They have since come to be known as the Mather Work Incentive Posters. "Aimed at improving the work practices of employees in industry and commerce" in the boom times following the First World War, Mather combined striking bold graphics, direct messages and superb lithography to create "one of the most outstanding continuous series of graphically significant posters ever produced in America" (FAMLI).
