A set of 4 cork backed coasters featuring artwork from the original poster by Aldo Cosomati,
Dimensions: 9cm
About the Poster:
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For the Wimbledon Tournament June 25th
Published by Underground Electric Railway Company Ltd, 1922
Printed by Johnson, Riddle & Company Ltd, 1922
About the artist:
Aldo Cosomati designed posters for the Underground Group 1922-1928.
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Biography:
The Italian artist Aldo Cosomati spent five years in Zurich, where he studied drawing, printing, bookbinding and furniture design. He settled in London at the end of the First World War and began to specialise in commercial art. He was soon introduced to Harold Curwen, of the Curwen Press, by Tichard Temple. He produced work for him up until the 1970s.