Oct 09, 2002 - Sale 1945

Sale 1945 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 1,035
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
ALBERT HAHN (1877-1918) KOLONIAL TENTOONSTELLING. 1914.
44x32 1/4 inches. Ellerman, Harms & Co., Amsterdam.
Condition A: unobtrusive horzontal fold; pinholes in top margin.
Hahn was a graphic designer who became widely known for his political posters. This poster, for the 1914 Colonial Exhibition, is one of his most famous. It is also one of the classic Dutch Art Nouveau posters of the period; presenting the classical layout of the subject (an Indonesian Woman) sitting in the center of an elaborately decorated border. Dutch, 120.