Oct 15, 2020 - Sale 2547

Sale 2547 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

ANTONIO SIMEONI (DATES UNKNOWN)

LAGO DI GARDA / RIVA. Circa 1926.


39 1/2x27 1/4 inches, 100 1/4x69 1/4 cm. Barabino & Graeve, Genova.
Condition B: partially-replaced margins; replaced losses, repaired tears and creases in margins, some into image; light speckling overall.

Although Simeoni is only known to have designed a few posters, "during the Thirties he worked for the Barabino & Graeve printing firm on the production of a series of posters and other advertising material for Lake Garda and the surrounding holiday resorts" (Manifesta p. 202). Travel Italia p. 45, Bolaffi p. 208, Manifesta 75, Alpi Italiane 103.