Just a note about this month’s Swann auction Our wonderful Trompf performed above estimate And our Classic Trouville also did well. These auctions are really mammoth affairs at the moment, not only was this Swann auction a behemoth but also the upcoming Swann auction extends to over 1000 lots, going through it is an undertaking …
From my amusing shower curtain from a couple of days ago I have unearthed a real vintage poster mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes !!! Is our famous Peugeot poster by Georges Favre or Gabrielle Favre ? My wife say’s everyone might know but me, which I hope gets me a quick answer ! It’s not …
Something about 1950 signals a brave new world for communication, I guess the world was opening up for the first time. Abram Games was at the forefront of this design concept with posters like this one for BOAC In his own way, French artist Rene Ravo is covering the same ground in this poster …
New items in my for sale section are these two E A Cox London Transport posters from 1920, they have cleaned up fantastically well from their previous crusty state, a truly magnificent transformation. Take a close look at their newly smooth form . How does the song go : smoother than a fresh jar of …
We have missed out quite a few classic poster artists from this blog and as I said the other day, Frank Newbould is one of them. His immediate pre war work stands up with the best. I remember this time last year I had a huge billboard version of this poster hanging in my stairwell, …
Taking a look at this poster Made me think about the number of great children’s book illustrators have crossed over into the poster world. It then made me think about ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ The book tells the story of an anthropomorphic tiger who irrupts afternoon tea. Sophie, the little girl, …
A couple of auctions yesterday and the action was fast and furious ! The poster lots at GW Railwayana were well spread out within the auction. There were a couple of French posters which i had not noticed before of which this was the pick As usual there isn’t much text to support the image. …
Just received a copy of the November Christies catalogue in the post, flicking through I clocked a couple of posters because I have seen them before : recently Firstly we have this anonymous Cunard poster, £1000 at Christies but £100 from the Saleroom in shall we say slightly worse condition I particularly like the way …
Scanning through the various Kings Cross for Scotland posters I noticed this one Fairly similar to the Trouville of a few days ago but with , well ; longer legs. Looking into Bradshaw, he is a fascinating character Laurence Bradshaw (1899–1978) was an English sculptor, printmaker and artist.[1] Bradshaw had been a socialist since his …
