So here I am submerged in house renovations when there are poster auctions which I need to tell you about. First in the line, mainly because it’s in just a few days time, is the forthcoming Swann Auction of Modernist Posters. Now, with their being in New York, there are usually only one or two [...]
I promised a while back that’s I’d revisit the most recent Great Central Railwayana auction and see what the posters on offer actually went for. A course of action necessitated by the fact that railwayana auctions never, it seems, publish an estimate of what they think a poster is going to sell for. This sometimes [...]
I’m not really supposed to be here at all, what with it being the Easter holidays and so on. But Great Central Railwayana have sent me the catalogue for their forthcoming auction, and guess what, it’s got posters in it. So I thought you might like to know. That said, I can’t quite work myself [...]
Last year, I wrote about depictions of the industrial North of England in posters, or rather I pointed out their rather conspicuous absence. At which point I got quite a lot of comments, mostly saying that I was wrong, and pointing me at posters like this. Which is, I am forced to admit, is exactly [...]
Today’s news is that I did something to something yesterday and discovered a whole new online archive. For a collection that I had no idea even existed in real life. It turns out that the British Council owns a socking great heap of posters. Made up of things like this McKnight Kauffer. And this Purvis. [...]