May 09, 2024 - Sale 2668

Sale 2668 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

PHYLLIS BRAY (1911-1991)

WIMBLEDON CHAMPIONSHIPS / FROM JUNE 20 TO JULY 2. 1938.


10x12¾ inches, 25½x32½ cm. The Dangerfield Printing Co., London.
Condition A-: minor creases at edges and along faint vertical fold; minor offsetting in image; mounted on Chartex.

Phyllis Bray was a core member of The East London Group of artists who worked and showed together from 1928 to 1936. She was best known for the murals she painted and for illustrating children's books. Primarily a painter, this colorful tennis racket design appears to be her only poster that has come up for auction. LTM 1983/4/10244.