Feb 29, 2024 - Sale 2660

Sale 2660 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

LEONARD CUSDEN (1898-1979)

OUT OF HARM'S WAY. Circa 1947.


30x20 inches, 76¼x50¾ cm. Loxley Brothers Limited, London.
Condition A-: small repaired tears at lower left edge, with brown tape on verso; minor creases and abrasions in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds. Paper.

In 1947, a large series of posters was commissioned and produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and printed by Loxley Brothers, in Sheffield. The artists involved in the project included Manfred Reiss, Thomas Eckersley, Abram Games, Desmond Moore, and the lesser-known Cusden.