May 21, 2009 - Sale 2181

Sale 2181 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 1,599
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
DESIGNER UNKNOWN [HIGHWAY AND AUTOMOBILE.] 1930.
20 3/4x15 inches, 53x38 cm.
Condition B+: repaired tear through left margin; minor creases in margins and image: sharp horizontal fold.
Advertising Highway and Automobile magazine, this Russian, state agency-printed poster is a rare and interesting document. Russian commercial posters from the 1930s are rare and unusual, and to find one designed in such an impeccable constructivist style is rarer still, as this style was largely reserved for political posters.