Jun 18, 2020 - Sale 2538

Sale 2538 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
GÉRARD MIEDINGER (1912-1995) DAS PLAKAT / KUNSTGEWERBEMUSEUM ZÜRICH. 1953.
50 1/4x35 3/4 inches, 127 1/2x90 3/4 cm. Bollmann AG, Zurich.
Condition B+: repaired tear at bottom edge, into image; repaired tears and losses at edges; creases, rippling and scuffing in image. Mounted on Chartex.
For this international poster exhibition at the Zurich Kunstgewerbe museum, six artists were each assigned a letter of the word 'PLAKAT' to design as a poster. Miedinger joined Adolf Flückiger, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Hans Falk, Warja Honegger-Lavater and Celestino Piatti in creating this series. Each artist was given the freedom to choose their own style, Miedinger's 'K' is strictly geometric, with flat planes of color. Swiss Graphic Design p. 165, MoMA 1505.2000.