May 12, 2008 - Sale 2145

Sale 2145 - Lot 104

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
FRÉJ DROST (JOHANNES FREEK 1907-1987) KUNST SOS. 1935.
33 1/2x23 1/4 inches, 85 x59 cm. Joh Enschede.
Condition A-: sharp horizontal fold; pinholes in corners. Paper.
Drost was a versatile artist. In a poster for a Student Congress (see Swann Modernist Poster Auction #2113, lot 65) he created a tour-de-force of new typography and composition. Here, depicting a mallet, chisel and palette he calls upon an artist's tools to illicit a visual plea for patrons to "Support Art / Buy Art."