Tag Archives: Fougasse

Auction fever (or not)

By crownfolio | Published: October 14, 2011

The next Christies poster sale is upon us; the lots are online, the printed catalogue is sitting on my desk.  But I’ve been avoiding writing about it for the last few days, mainly because I can’t work up much enthusiasm for what’s on offer. This, if I am pushed, is probably the best of the [...]

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Chaps like you

By crownfolio | Published: September 19, 2011

A bit of a miscellany today, of which the most notable items are these. They’re a pair of 1940s government information posters, but what makes them different is that they’re not wartime posters but date, I am reasonably sure, from just after the war. The message is certainly right for the times.  World War Two [...]

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Keep the noise down

By crownfolio | Published: October 25, 2010

We’re all about selling this week on Quad Royal.  Partly because time for contemplation is a bit thin on the ground, but also because there’s a lot of stuff about demanding our attention. Firstly, Fougasse. Quite a number of his posters are currently being sold by a dealer called Neil Jennings.  Now I wouldn’t usually [...]

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To war, again

By crownfolio | Published: June 4, 2010

It’s auctions a-go-go this week.  And the next on our list is yet another tranche of World War Two posters for Wallis and Wallis down in darkest Sussex, to be sold on Tuesday. I’m rather reluctant to deal with what’s on offer this time round  (61 lots, a good hundred posters at a guess) because [...]

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Britain Can Make Lovely Posters

By crownfolio | Published: February 23, 2010

A further digression here.  I’ve spent the morning assembling the first draft of the links page, and in the course of it have rediscovered this wonderful photograph: It’s the General Printing part of the 1947 Britain Can Make It exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum.  The aim was to showcase the consumer goods which would [...]

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