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Auction archive: Lot number 68

E. MCKNIGHT KAUFFER OUTPOSTS OF BRITAIN

Modernist Posters
5 May 2003
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 68

E. MCKNIGHT KAUFFER OUTPOSTS OF BRITAIN

Modernist Posters
5 May 2003
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

E. MCKNIGHT KAUFFER OUTPOSTS OF BRITAIN. 1937. Two posters. 20x25 inches. Condition varies, generally B+: creases in margins and image. One poster is linen-mounted, the other is paper.. Kauffer met Sir Stephen Tallents in the late 1920's while the latter was secretary of the Empire Marketing Board. When it closed in 1933, Tallents moved to Britain's General Post Office where he was the first person in England to be given the title of "public relations officer". In this new position he continued to ask the best available graphic designers to work for him. In 1937 Kauffer did six posters for him, including a series of four called Outposts of Britain, to illustrate that the G. P. O. could reach anywhere in the country no matter how isolated. Kauffer uses a graphic frame of primarily black and blue, in which he integrates black and white pictures. Kauffer, p. 132.

Auction archive: Lot number 68
Auction:
Datum:
5 May 2003
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
Beschreibung:

E. MCKNIGHT KAUFFER OUTPOSTS OF BRITAIN. 1937. Two posters. 20x25 inches. Condition varies, generally B+: creases in margins and image. One poster is linen-mounted, the other is paper.. Kauffer met Sir Stephen Tallents in the late 1920's while the latter was secretary of the Empire Marketing Board. When it closed in 1933, Tallents moved to Britain's General Post Office where he was the first person in England to be given the title of "public relations officer". In this new position he continued to ask the best available graphic designers to work for him. In 1937 Kauffer did six posters for him, including a series of four called Outposts of Britain, to illustrate that the G. P. O. could reach anywhere in the country no matter how isolated. Kauffer uses a graphic frame of primarily black and blue, in which he integrates black and white pictures. Kauffer, p. 132.

Auction archive: Lot number 68
Auction:
Datum:
5 May 2003
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
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