May 07, 2015 - Sale 2382

Sale 2382 - Lot 257

Price Realized: $ 520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ALMIR MAVIGNIER (1925- ) [EXHIBITIONS.] Group of 5 posters. Circa 1970s.
Each approximately 33x23 1/2 inches, 83 3/4x59 3/4 cm.
Condition varies, generally A- / A. Silkscreen. Paper.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Mavignier moved to Europe in the early 1950s, where he studied under Max Bill and Josef Albers at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach. Toward the end of the decade he had his own studio and was working both as a painter and a graphic designer. His specialty was concrete and Op art, within which he worked with dot pictures, grid patterns and other geometrical studies. Between 1957 and 1970, he designed 55 posters for the Ulm Museum, as well as many other posters for different exhibitions around the world. Group includes: Plakate / Retrospective; Mavignier / Edition Meissner; Mavignier / Galerie Schoeller; Soto; and Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Kunstler Plakate p. 62.