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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
HAROLD SANDYS ("H.S.") WILLIAMSON (1892-1978) LOADING MAILS AT THE DOCKS IN LONDON. 1934. 40 1/2x49 1/2 inches, 103x126 cm. Condition A- / B+: minor repaired tears at edges, some affecting image. Williamson was a painter who was Headmaster at the Chelsea School of Art from 1930-1958. After serving England during the First World War, he began designing posters for London Transport, the Empire Marketing Board and the General Post Office, for whom he created a series of four images in 1934. All of his work bears a stylized, Art Deco sensibility, and this image, with its flat colors and Machine Age rendering of the ships, bears a strong resemblance to Roger Broders' image of Marseille harbor.
