Tag Archives: Royston Cooper

Leave your Paddens here

By crownfolio | Published: November 22, 2010

I spy with my little eye… …some Daphne Padden posters for sale.  And I’m rather pleased about it as her work really does deserve more attention and acclaim than it has got so far. The one above is being sold by Elephant and Monkey for £95, but Fears and Kahn have this (for a somewhat more [...]

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1962 and all that

By crownfolio | Published: October 4, 2010

Our subject today is this, which arrived in the post the other day. It’s a book which does what it says on the cover. Posters, lots of them.  And most of them from 1960 or 1961.  Can’t argue with that. Unfortunately, the vast majority are reproduced in black and white.  The only artists to earn [...]

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Auction thoughts

By crownfolio | Published: July 30, 2010

Once the dust had settled, I had hoped to come up with some conclusions about the Morphets bus and train extravaganza of last week.  But the more I look at the results, the more my brain becomes addled.  This isn’t just the result of the scale of it all, although that hasn’t got any better, [...]

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Poster Mathematics

By crownfolio | Published: July 26, 2010

I can’t resist a few instant observations about Morphets.  The full set of opinions will have to wait until I’ve got the complete results in front of me and some more time, but for the moment, we’ll deal with what I know. Firstly, it’s clear that not many people like Daphne Padden and Royston Cooper [...]

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Artist and Balloonist

By crownfolio | Published: July 9, 2010

Last time I posted about Royston Cooper, I was shocked just how little it was possible to find out about him.  To the tune of nothing.  Christies could give me his dates, but that was about it. But, his widow, Marie, got in contact with the blog to say thank you for mentioning him.  I [...]

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Throw a Coach Party

By crownfolio | Published: June 30, 2010

It’s here.  The much anticipated Morphets everything-you-ever-wanted-to-own-from -the-sixties-and-seventies Malcolm Guest catalogue has arrived at The Saleroom and on their website. Donald Smith, two posters for Hants and Dorset Coaches My brain is going to take a while to absorb it all, especially in this heat – there are over a thousand lots, and with many [...]

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