Feb 04, 2010 - Sale 2201

Sale 2201 - Lot 121

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
DESIGNER UNKNOWN [TYPO-CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHIE.] 1901.
20x15 3/4 inches, 51x40 cm.
Condition B / B+: repaired tears, creases, overpainting and restoration in margins and image; uneven bottom margin; vertical and horizontal folds. Japan.
An extremely rare poster documenting the printing industry in Czarist Russia. The artist must certainly have been familiar with the prevailing trends in French Art Nouveau graphics as the superbly ornate border has elements of design as postulated by Alphonse Mucha and Eugene Grasset.