May 05, 2003 - Sale 1970

Sale 1970 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 546
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
JAN LEWITT (1907-1991) JERZY HIM (1900-1982) LONDON'S OFFER. 1938.
40x25 inches. Baynard Press, London.
Condition B+: minor tears and creases in margins; creases in image. Paper.
Lewitt and Him were both born in Poland and met as young graphic designers. In 1933 they founded the Lewitt-Him studio and later immigrated to England in 1937. Deeply inspired by Surrealist painting, their work often played with words and images. This sophisticated drawing is a poetical image for the London Underground which shows five arms extending from behind a curtain, each holding an item symbolic of the various activities that people can avail themselves of around London.