Oct 18, 2013 - Sale 2326

Sale 2326 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
PATRICK COKAYNE KEELY (?-1970) SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS / SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 1947.
39 3/4x25 inches, 101x63 1/2 cm. McCorquodale, London.
Condition B+ / B: repaired tears in margins and image; creases and abrasions in image; cursive text added via silkscreen.
Pat Keely established himself as a prominent graphic designer in the years before the Second World War, known for his strong, stylized Art Deco style (which he used most notably in his posters for the Southern Railway). During World War II, he was one of the artists chosen to participate in the workplace safety series commissioned by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.