Nov 14, 2019 - Sale 2524

Sale 2524 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
DARIO BERNAZZOLI (1908-1999) "ITALIA" / SOCIETA DI NAVIGAZIONE. 1950.
38 1/4x22 1/4 inches, 97 1/4x56 1/2 cm. A. Pizzi, Milan.
Condition B+: replaced lower left corner; repaired tears and creases at edges; ink stamp in upper right image; pin holes in top corners. Mounted on Japan.
Bernalozzi began his career as an apprentice lithographer with the great Genovese lithography company Barabino & Graeve. He opened up his own studio in the late 1930s. "His best posters, charactized by a modern style, are from the post-war period" (Bolaffi p. 17). In addition to images for the Società Italiana di Navigazione, better known as "Italian Line," he also designed posters for the Home Lines, and Esso.