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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
HAROLD PERCY FORSTER (1895-1975)
GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON - ON - SEA.
39¼x49 inches, 99½x124½ cm. Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London. Condition B+: minor repaired tears, creases and abrasions in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds; edges slightly trimmed.
Forster was a British commercial artist, who apprenticed for poster designer Fred Taylor when he was only 15 years old. He carried out a successful commercial art career, "though his public profile then and now is surprisingly low for a man reported in a short 1940 portrait piece (The Bystander, 17th April) as ‘probably the highest-paid commercial artist in the country'" (https://artuk.org/discover/artists/forster-harold-percy-18951975). Part of this discrepancy may be owed to the fact that he never exhibited in shows or galleries and kept solely to commercial pursuits. He is best remembered for a series of BOAC posters featuring people looking skyward, towards airplanes flying along route maps. He also designed numerous other posters, including for the British World War II home front.
