Aug 07, 2019 - Sale 2515

Sale 2515 - Lot 458

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
GIOVANNI MINGOZZI (1891-?) CAMPARI SODA. 1950.
38 3/4x26 1/2 inches, 98 1/2x67 1/4 cm. Studio Mingozzi, Bologna.
Condition A: small repaired tear at left edge; slight time-staining at top edge.
Mingozzi spent his entire life and career in Bologna, where he founded the Alta Studio in the 1920s and then opened an eponymously named studio in the 1930s. His posters uniformly reflected his Modernist view of design. Among his largest clients were Barbisio hats, Ebano shoe polish and a variety of different brands of liquor, including Campari. This strong image from later in his career promotes the company's soda with its stylized, signature bottle. The image manages to both represent the bottle as an inverted cocktail glass and catch the viewer's eye with the vibrating background.