Oct 25, 2018 - Sale 2490

Sale 2490 - Lot 168

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
HELEN MCKIE (1899-1957) WATERLOO STATION / SOUTHERN RAILWAY / PEACE AND WAR. 1947.
40x50 inches, 101 1/2x127 cm. The Baynard Press, London.
Condition B+ / A-: repaired tears and restoration at edges and along vertical and horizontal folds; vertical crease in lower left text.
"The two companion posters refer to the recent war, with similar sets of travelers: in War Guardsmen wear khaki and a group in military garb marches through the station; in Peace, soldiers appear in their red dress uniforms where the Guardsmen stood, and a group of girls, attired for school in skirts and white shirts, appear in the place of military figures" (Art for All p. 112). Also gone is the blackout tarp across the station's roof. Art for All 112, Railway p. 91.