Dec 18, 2013 - Sale 2336

Sale 2336 - Lot 108

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
BERTA CZEGKA (1880-1954) EXHIBITION OF AUSTRIAN FINE ART AND DECORATIVE FURNISHING. 1902.
59 1/2x40 inches, 151x101 3/4 cm. Otto Maass, Vienna
Condition B: tears, losses and creases in margins and image; vertical and horizontal folds; restoration along horizontal seam; tape on recto and verso. Two-sheets attached. Paper.
Czegka was a painter, illustrator and caricaturist who worked for different magazines as well as designed images for ceramics. This poster for an exhibition in London is a simple, Secessionist delight with its stylized typography and imagery. The artist's monogram is in the lower left corner.