May 13, 2013 - Sale 2314

Sale 2314 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
GUNTER RAMBOW (1938- ), GERHARD LIENEMEYER (1936- ) & MICHAEL VAN DE SAND (1945- P.E.N. / IM EXIL. 1983.
46 3/4x33 inches, 118 3/4x83 3/4 cm. Domberger, Filberstadt.
Condition A-: tears at edges; creases and abrasions in margins and image. Paper.
Rambow is one of the leading German designers from the past 50 years, who produced innumerable images. P.E.N. International (an acronym for poets, playwrights, essayist, editors and novelists) was founded in 1921, and P.E.N. in Exile was founded in 1934 to help German intellectuals escape from the Nazis. This poster announces an exhibition of the writers' work at the Frankfurt Museum. "Stripped of everything superfluous, the poster has a dramatic intensity that can't be ignored. It is immediately and clearly legible . . . it is an unforgettable image" (introduction, Rambow / Cants). Rambow np, Rambow / Cants np.