May 10, 2016 - Sale 2414

Sale 2414 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JINDRICH HLAVÍN (1877-1958) VYSTAVA JEDNOTY / UMELCU VYTVARNYCH. 1910.
47 1/4x31 1/2 inches, 120x80 cm. Vitek, Prague.
Condition B+ / A-: minor tears at edges; creases in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds. Paper.
Hlavín was a painter and a graphic designer who studied at the Prague School of Decorative Arts. This poster, for an exhibition of Fine Arts at Prague's Rudolfinum, is "a well orchestrated composition of colored surfaces" (Poseltstvi Ulice p. 41.) Czech Posters p. 55, Cesky Plakat 24, Prazsky Chodec p. 70.