SZYK ARTHUR Visual History of Nations

Sale 2247 - Lot 165

Unsold

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

EACH SIGNED BY SZYK SZYK, ARTHUR. Visual History of Nations. 7 heliochrome lithographs from the Visual History of Nations series (Israel, USSR, Great Britain, France, China, Canada, and Switizerland; from a total edition of 9; lacking The United States of America and Poland) plus: The Visual History of Flight. Together, 8 plates, 290x250mm, sheets, wide margins, some toning, Canada and Switzerland plates with mild toning to lower right corner. each signed by szyk in ink, lower right. Winnipeg: K. Bileski, 1948

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

This series of images of the founding and member countries of the United Nations was commissioned in 1945 by Canadian philatelist and entrepreneur Kasimir Bileski. Each print was created as frontispiece or title page for an international stamp album. While sixty images were commissioned by Bileski, Szyk completed only nine countries plus the additional image here titled The History of Flight, before his sudden death in 1951.