May 09, 2013 - Sale 2313

Sale 2313 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BILL, MAX. 10 Original-Lithos. 10 color lithographs of various geometric shapes, 210x150 mm; 8 1/4x5 7/8 inches, images, no margins, Signed in the plate. 8vo, plates loose as issued in folding printed wrappers, joints starting; one plate lightly spotted, others clean. Zurich: Allianz, 1941

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scarce portfolio by the great swiss designer. number 77 of 100 copies. And with the bookplate of New York art collector and founder of the Museum of Living Art, A. E. Gallatin. First called the Gallery of Living Art and housed at New York University between 1927 and 1943, Gallatin's collection was one of the pioneering showcases of modern art in New York City.