Peter Strausfeld (1910-1980)
IT'S MY LIFE / VIVRE SA VIE
1962, Panthéon Distribution, British quad, unfolded, condition A; not backed
30 x 40in. (76 x 102cm.)

Specialist Note:

Peter Strausfeld was born in Germany and came to Britain in 1938. During the war he developed a close friendship with George Hoellering, the director of the Academy Cinema in Oxford Street, London. Hoellering did not like the studio issued film posters, and commissioned Strausfeld to create a series of posters to be pasted up across the London underground network. Strausfeld designed over 300 images over a thirty year period, all of which were printed by hand using his trademark lino-cut technique. Only 200 of each design were ever printed, thereby making them extremely scarce.

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