Charles Paine - n.n. - SHELL. The Quick Starting Pair - 1900s

This image (89.5 x 51.5 cm) from Shell the Quick Starting Pair by Charles Paine is printed on a strong chemical foam material and comes from the Shell Offshore Training Center in Noordwijk in the Netherlands. It is printed after the original from 1928. It is only in its kind and not made as a commercial product. There are traces (folds) of an original poster from 1928 used for this. There is no other copie with the same material and this image is a unica. Last photo gives an impression of the used foam material. The image has a very professional outlook.
Shell. The Quick Starting Pair. Charles Paine (1895-1967) Charles Paine was a versatile and prolific designer, who drew on his training in stained glass to create bold, structured and highly stylised posters for a variety of companies. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1919, Paine left London to work for the Applied Art Department of Edinburgh College of Art. Paine's immediate superior was the distinguished printmaker John Platt (1886-1967) and they had a marked influence on each other's' work. It is thought that Platt introduced him to Frank Pick at the London Underground for whom he was to design 31 posters in the 1920’s. Paine went on to design for Shell, the Empire Marketing Board, GPO, Penquin Books, Sundour Fabrics and on government propaganda during the war. In 1939 he was engaged by Welwyn Garden City Ltd to 'take responsibility for the creative angle of the organisation's publicity'. In 1948 he moved to Jersey where he remained until his death in 1967.