Oct 26, 2017 - Sale 2459

Sale 2459 - Lot 90

Price Realized: $ 2,470
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ANTONIO SIMEONI (DATES UNKNOWN) LAGO DI GARDA / RIVA. Circa 1926.
39 1/2x27 1/2 inches, 100 1/4x70 cm. Barabino & Graeve, Genova.
Condition B+: tears at edges, some slightly into image; creases in margins and image and along horizontal fold. Paper.
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). From the Julius Paul Collection, with the Albertina stamp and pencil-written inventory number on verso. Travel Italia p. 45, Bolaffi p. 208, Manifesta 75, Alpi Italiane 103.