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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
REGINALD MOUNT (1906-1979) BONES MAKE EXPLOSIVES. Circa 1944. 29 1/4x19 1/4 inches, 74 1/2x49 cm. Ford, Shapland & Co., London. Condition B+: minor restoration along vertical and horizontal folds. Mount was recruited by the Ministry of Information in 1939 and designed posters during the Second World War. While working for the Ministry he met Eileen Evans who became his design partner through the 1960s. The British National Archives refers to their work together as "neat and precise designs for a variety of government agencies." Here, in the prevailing trend of photomontage and surrealism which was spearheaded by artists like Abram Games, Mount makes a visual plea for citizens to save their bone scraps for war work. IWM PST 14693.
