For Denise Who Proposes To Paint Her Legs WWII
[ON RESERVE 18/4/24] Original vintage World War Two poster featuring an illustration by the Polish painter and official war artist Feliks Topolski (1907-1989) of a lady dressed up to go out, drawing a seam line up the back of her leg due to the wartime nylon rationing to give the impression she's wearing stockings, a Scots Guards Officer at the door offering to help draw the line for her in the words of a poem below by the English author, museum curator, art and fashion historian James Laver (1899-1975), titled For Denise Who Proposes To Paint Her Legs (Enter a Scots Guards Officer in his "Blue"). Penguin Print No. 4 of which 10,000 copies have been lithographed and the plates destroyed. Drawn by Feliks Topolski Text by James Laver Lithographed in England at the Baynard Press, London and published by Penguin Books Ltd of Harmondsworth. Good condition, creasing, tears, staining.
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