May 03, 2018 - Sale 2476

Sale 2476 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ALEXANDR VLADIMIR HRSKA (1890-1954) CLOVEK V. KLECI. 1925.
39 1/4x27 1/4 inches, 99 3/4x69 1/4 cm. V. Neubert, Prague.
Condition A-: minor tear at top edge; minor creases in margins and image. Paper.
Prague-born Hrska studied at that city's Academy of Fine Arts. He went on to a have a productive career as a poster designer, painter and set designer. His style ranged from rather pure Art Deco stylization, to classical imagery to modernist design. For this theatrical production, Man in a Cage, Hrska, who also designed the scenography, depicts a man with his arm around a lithe woman while in the background people are dancing, or perhaps rioting, against a modernist cityscape. Hrska 87.