Sale 2459 - Rare & Important Travel Posters, October 26, 2017

EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954) 172 c THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICE MUSEUM. 1922. 39 1 / 2 x24 1 / 4 inches, 100 1 / 4 x61 1 / 2 cm. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd., London. Condition B+: replaced losses, overpainting and minor staining at edges; repaired pin holes at edges. Frank Pick, the influential head of publicity for the London Underground, commissioned Kauffer to design a series of posters advertising Museums in the city. “Kauffer’s use of subject matter for this series [of four posters for museums] combined geometric theory with realistic imagery” (Art for All p. 134). Kauffer 43. [700/1,000] EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954) 173 c AT THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE / SOUTH KENSINGTON. 1923. 40x24 1 / 4 inches, 101 1 / 2 x61 1 / 2 cm. Vincent Brooks Day and Son Ltd., London. Condition B+: expertly-repaired tears at edges into image; replaced losses and overpainting at edges. “This poster . . . marked the re-opening of the Land Transport Galleries at the Science Museum in 1923. In that year the Underground presented to the Science Museum its first electric locomotive which had been built for the City & South London Railway” (Pleasure Trips p. 57). Kauffer 56, Pleasure Trips p. 57, Art for All 135. [700/1,000] 172 173