Brian Harland Rees

1930-2005

"Gone of Oblivion", Original Cover Design, c.1961

Ref: 1623

Gouache on illustrator's board, 22.5 by 19 cm

 

Rees was an advertising artist who specialised in illustration and book design and was a master of simplicity of layout. The present design is for L.J.Ludovici's 1961 work "Gone of Oblivion - A Vendetta in Science" (published by Max Parrish)  although in the event a slightly different version of this design was used. 

 

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