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A PAIR OF FRAMED EXHIBITION POSTERS

AFTER REX WHISTLER, PRINTED BY VINCENT BROOKS DAY & SON

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A PAIR OF FRAMED EXHIBITION POSTERS
After Rex Whistler, printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son
One with a cornucopia and rockwork-framed cartouche, framed by a pair of flags and with medallions of the four King Georges to each corner, inscribed 'In Aid of the ROYAL NORTHERN HOSPITAL The Four Georges LOAN EXHIBITION of Pictures (Gainsborough, Reynolds etc) and Furniture etc: of these four figure Reigns. OPEN DAILY 11 TILL 7 Sundays included Open: Feb.23rd until Mar 30th Admission 5/- AT 25 PARK LANE' with printed signature 'Rex Whistler 1930' and 'Vincent Brooks Day & Son Ltd. Lith. London. WC2', the other with the seated King William and Queen Mary below an ermine- draped canopy with trumpeting putti and above a acanthus and palm- scrolled cartouche inscribed 'The Age of Walnut 1660 1714 IN AID OF THE ROYAL NORTHERN HOSPITAL LOAN EXHIBITION of Furniture, Pictures, Silver etc: DAILY 11 TILL 7 Sundays included OPEN FEB.23 UNTIL APL.4 Admission Five Shillings 25 PARK LANE' and with printed signature 'Rex Whistler.1932 Vincent Brooks Day & Son Ltd. lith. London. WC2'
Overall: 31¼ x 20¾ in. (79.5 x 53 cm.), including frames (2)
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From 1928 Sir Philip Sassoon (d. 1939), a trustee of the National Gallery, the Wallace Collection and the Tate Gallery, launched a series of exhibitions at his Mayfair home in Park Lane. 'The Four Georges', 1930 and 'The Age of Walnut', 1932 were two of the most innovative and brought together paintings together with furniture and other decorative arts.

Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt. was a renowned political host, who through the 1920s and 1930s , served almost continuously as a government minister. The interiors he created at Port Lympne, Kent [decorated by Whistler], Trent Park, Hertfordshire and the salons at 25 Park Lane were justly celebrated for their innovation and exotic lavishness. The majority of works of art included in Christie's sale of works of art from Houghton, 8 December 1994, came from Sassoon's collection.

Rex Whistler (d. 1944), a talented draghtsman, illustrator, muralist, theatre designer, decorative artist and portraitist, was part of the social set surrounding Cecil Beaton, the Sitwells and Lord Berners. His visionary, arcadian style appealed greatly during the inter-war years. His best-known works are the murals for the Tate Gallery restaurant, The Pursuit of Rare Meats, 1926-27 and the enormous mural at Plas Newydd, Gwynedd commissioned by Charles, 5th Marquess of Anglesey (d. 1947) from Whistler in 1936.