May 03, 2010 - Sale 2213

Sale 2213 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
JOSEPH BINDER (1898-1972) TAKE IT EASY . . . TAKE THE TRAIN. Circa 1950.
28 1/4x 22 inches, 72x56 cm.
Condition A.
Joseph Binder emigrated from Austria to America in the mid-1930s. He had studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under the great Secessionist Alfred Roller, and became one of the most promising modernist graphic designers in Austria. He continued working as a graphic designer in America. Amongst his largest clients were the Red Cross, United Airlines, the Association of American Railroads and the United States Navy, for whom he became art director in 1948.