Jun 13, 2017 - Sale 2451

Sale 2451 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 3,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(DESIGN.) Zwart, Piet. Homage to a Young Girl. Letterpress type composition on thin cream paper. 240x168 mm; 9 1/2x6 5/8 inches, sheet. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. Tipped to window matte with archival tape at upper corners, verso. [Netherlands, 1925]
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Possibly one of the original 50 editioned copies of this "typographical experiment," but likely signed later by Zwart as the date is signed in a slightly shaky hand. "Devised by the placement of elements from the typecase, this is the only free-form type composition Zwart produced in his career. [It] is based on the four letters of the artist's first name, Z for Zwart, and the date"--David Ryan, Letter Perfect, page 46; Modernism: Modernist Design 1880-1940, Duncan, page 150.