Tag Archives: Hans Schleger

Buy, Buy, Sell, Buy

By crownfolio | Published: May 23, 2011

There are a lot of posters about at the moment; it’s only Monday morning and I’m exhausted just thinking about it.  Not only have there just been the  Christies and Onslows sales, but there’s also quite a bit coming up on eBay too.  I’d like to sum it up in some kind of executive summary [...]

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When did you last see an auction?

By crownfolio | Published: May 11, 2011

So, spring is in the air and the auctions are springing up like dandelions on  the lawn.  Christies is tomorrow, as mentioned before, and in the meantime two more catalogues have popped up on the web, Onslows and Van Sabben, with auctions on the 18th May and 4th June respectively. I’ll start with Onslows first, [...]

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Modern selling

By crownfolio | Published: April 13, 2011

The auction season really is upon us; no sooner do I promise you the Christies highlights, than the Swann Galleries catalogue also pops into my email box.  And to my surprise, the American auction is, I think, the winner.  But let’s take a quick canter through both of them, and then you can make up [...]

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Books and Canons

By crownfolio | Published: January 26, 2011

Right, back to the bookstacks once more.  In a way I’m rather pleased that there’s a backlog of things I need to write about, it shows that posters and graphic design are starting to be taken seriously.  But more than most, today’s book is both necessary and useful. It’s GPO Design by Paul Rennie, a [...]

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Over-modern and over here

By crownfolio | Published: January 24, 2011

An interesting comment appeared a week or so ago on a older post about Beverley Pick. He was a man.  Bless him… He was my uncle and a very clever man..He also did the original Moby Dick… Beverley was originally from Austria and lived many years in Sunningdale during the winter. Autumn he would visit [...]

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Door 22

By crownfolio | Published: December 22, 2010

Christmas is getting close now and the turkeys, quite rightly, are starting to look worried. Mind you, I can’t see why the fish is looking so chipper, there’s going to be plenty of smoked salmon about too. Even though only the bottom one is signed Zero, both of these are from the period when Hans [...]

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