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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ISTVAN TURI-POLGÁR (1884-1980) MESSE / BUDAPEST. 1938. 37x25 inches, 94x63 1/2 cm. Condition A. Many of Hungary's top artists were enlisted to help promote the yearly trade fair held in the capital city. Mihály Biró, Sándor Bortnyik, Berény, Konecsni and others contributed images to the series. The designer of this poster, whose fame does not equal those of his colleagues, designed two images in successive years, each employing the same cinematic effect of showing grand structures in the city seen from a low perspective. Illustrated here is the lighthouse on Budapest's Petofi Bridge, which was constructed in 1937, designed after the famous Rijeka harbor lighthouse in Croatia. The bridge was destroyed in 1945 when the Nazis were fleeing the city and the lighthouse was never rebuilt.
