May 10, 2016 - Sale 2414

Sale 2414 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAN KONUPEK (1883-1950) RUDOLFINUM / "KRÁSNÁ PRAHA." 1906.
39 1/2x27 1/2 inches, 100 1/2x70 cm. A. Haase, Prague.
Condition B+: minor tears at edges; creases and minor abrasions in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds. Paper.
Konupek studied architecture between 1903 and 1906 before he turned towards being an artist in 1906. "His work falls into imaginative expressions of Czech-based symbolism" (Cesky Plakat p. 48). He was a printmaker and an illustrator who designed bookplates and bonds in addition to posters. Czech Posters p. 47, Cesky Plakat 47, Prazsky Chodec p. 64.