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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MAXWELL ARMFIELDBY UNDERGROUND TO FRESH AIR. 1915. 39 3/4x24 1/4 inches. Waterlow & Sons, London. Condition B: restored losses in corners and margins, affecting image; horizontal fold; repaired tears in image. With Britain involved in the First World War, many of the posters for the Underground "ignored the war completey and continued to encourage leisure travel" (Underground p. 34). Armfield's cosmic image borders on the surreal and may well have been an inspiration for Man Ray, who also used planets in his 1939 poster for the Underground. Underground p. 34.
