May 10, 2012 - Sale 2278

Sale 2278 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
IB ANDERSEN (1907-1969) BYGGE OG BOLIG. 1929.
32 1/2x24 1/2 inches, 82 1/2x62 cm. Chr. Cato, [Copenhagen.]
Condition A: minor creases at edges. Paper. Framed.
For an exhibition of "Construction and Housing," Andersen shows us just that; a superb, architectural rendition of a room seen via a cut-away view. The artist's familiarity with the Avant-Garde movements of Europe is clearly on display, both in the near-Bauhausian back drop of a black and white cityscape and in the tribute to de Stijl in the primary colors of the buildings and the sky. A pure, geometric Art Deco approach. Danish 72.