?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
WHO'S ABSENT? 1915. 291/4x20 inches. Andrew Reid, London. Condition A-: minor creases and discoloration in image. John Bull, in his Union Jack vest is standing in front of a line of khaki-clad soldiers and a burning building, pointing towards the public with a reproachful question. The most famous of the "pointing" recruitment posters is James Montgomery Flagg's I Want You (1917), which was based on Alfred Leete's poster of Lord Kitchener (1914). This image falls chronologically between the two. If British World War I posters failed to have all of the emotive power and strength of their American and European counterparts it is because by and large they were designed by printers and not by artists. Paret 67, Rickards 11.
