?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
HERBERT MATTER (1907-1984)
ALL ROADS LEAD TO SWITZERLAND. 1935.
39 1/2x25 1/4 inches, 100 1/4x64 1/4 cm. Fretz, Zurich. Condition A- / B+: replaced upper left corner; minor creases and restoration at edges; hinge remnants on verso. Mounted on Japan.
Herbert Matter was a pioneer and early master of photomontage. This poster is part of the extraordinary series of Swiss travel posters he made between 1934-36, all consisting of close-up images that seem to spring out at the viewer, against a background of clever montages. This is the English version. Word & Image p. 74, Voyage p. 153 (var), Modern Poster 179 (var), Fotoplakate, p. 120 (var), Muller-Brockmann 150 (var), Margadant 281, Art Deco p. 71, Encyclopedie de l'Affiche p. 214, Avant Garde p. 175 (var), Swiss Poster 281, Weill 447 (var).
