Oct 25, 2018 - Sale 2490

Sale 2490 - Lot 152

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
HERRY PERRY (HEATHER PERRY, 1897-1962) KEW. 1929.
40x24 3/4 inches, 101 1/2x63 cm. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Ltd., London.
Condition A- / B+: minor repaired tears, creases and light skinning in margins; unobtrusive horizontal crease in lower text.
Perry designed five poster maps for the London Underground in 1929: Kew, Harrow, Hounslow, Morden and Edgware. In all, she designed more than 50 posters promoting transport in London. In the early 1930s she was commissioned to design murals for The Queen Mary, Cunard's newest liner.