May 06, 2002 - Sale 1935

Sale 1935 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ERFINDUNGS AUSSTELLUNG. 1907.
28x18 1/2 inches. Hollerbaum & Schmidt, Berlin.
Condition B: restored losses and overpainting in top and bottom margins; creases in image.
This poster, for an invention exhibition at the Berlin Zoo, still features Bernhard's early cartoon-like illustration, but with an added idea that makes the poster far more effective and memorable: the inventor's oversized finger pointing at his forehead.
ref: Das Fruhe Plakat<>, vol. 3, Gebr. Mann, 1980, no. 146, table 11.