May 03, 2010 - Sale 2213

Sale 2213 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ATTRIBUTED TO HIROMU HARA (1903-1986) [MEMORIAL DAY FOR THE NAVY IN WARTIME.] Circa 1942.
36x24 1/4 inches, 92x62 cm.
Condition B / B+: minor tears, creases and losses in right and left margins; repaired tear through top margin into image; archival tape on verso. Paper.
Hara was one of the founders of Japanese modern graphic design. During the Pacific War (1941-45) he became the artistic director for Front, a Japanese propaganda magazine. "Using cinematic montage techniques distorting the sense of distance by contrasting close up images with distant ones" (Posters-Japan np.)