?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
G. STANISLAUS BRIEN (DATES UNKNOWN)
SHELL OIL & PETROL / THE QUICK STARTING PAIR. Circa 1930s.
30x44 1/2 inches, 76 1/4x113 cm. Condition B+: minor water staining at bottom edge; minor repaired tears at edges; creases, abrasions and restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; some offsetting in text and image; repaired pin holes in top corners.
Polish-born G. Stanislaus Brien was a linocut artist who designed posters for Shell, the London Underground and the LNER. He designed fewer than a dozen posters, and most of them depict animals. One of two variants, the other of which reads "Shell Oil & Spirit." Rare.
