Aug 03, 2005 - Sale 2048

Sale 2048 - Lot 428

Price Realized: $ 2,070
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
LEO MARFURT BELGIQUE LE LITTORAL. 1938.
391/4x24 inches. Les Creations Publicitaires, Brussels.
Condition B+: paper loss and creases in image.
A modernist image of the black, yellow, and red Belgian flag erected in a pile of sand waving in the breeze beside a red pail, a shovel, and a colorful beach ball and shells; lettering in black and red. Marfurt can be seen as the alter ego of France's Cassandre and Britain's McKnight Kauffer: he employs the same strong and sharp graphics, the same geometric approach and the same efficient visual concepts. This is the French version. Duchesne, p. 72, no. 97 and cover. Belgique, p. 53, no. 60.