?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
RAPHAEL T. ROUSSEL (1883-1967)
TO AUSTRALIA / P&O / ONE CLASS SERVICE.
39½x24½ inches, 100¼x61½ cm. McCorquodale & Co., Limited, London. Condition A- / B+: overpainting and small repaired tears in margins.
Raphael, son of the French painter Theodore Roussel, designed posters for the British steamship lines P&O and RSMP promoting travel to such foreign destinations as Australia and Sudan. He also designed dioramas for the British Empire Exhibition in 1926. "Another avenue for poster artists was the desire, on behalf of both the Commonwealth of Australia and the shipping lines, to lure immigrants to Australia. [Roussel's poster] is a classic image with a lightly tanned farmer beckoning Britons to a land bathed in sunshine" (Trading Places p. 4).
