'Curiosity Ignorance Bravado', 1943

Colour lithograph information, poster after Abram Games (1914-1996), printed by Alf Cooke Limited, Leeds and London, for HM Stationery Office, 1943.

Games called this series of posters the 'Symphony Macabre'. He was concerned that they might not be approved by the War Office and, in a letter to a friend, wrote, 'I am working again on my Accident Ammunition series and today formed a rather daring design - I don't think they will have it!'

This poster is a warning against tampering with ammunition. Its stark modernist design features a red coffin, ammunition and an explosion.

From a collection of 45 posters from World War Two (1939-1945).