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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
LEOPOLDO METLICOVITZPOLA / VENEZIA GIULIA. Circa 1920. 27 1/8x39 1/8 inches. G. Ricordi, Milan. Condition B+: restoration and overpainting in margins; repaired tears in image. For centuries, Pola, the present-day Yugoslavian port city of Pula on the Istrian penninsula, and neighboring Trieste, came under the influence of many different ruling powers. The amphitheatre was built during the reign of Emperor Vespasian and with a seating capacity of 23,000 was the sixth largest in the world. She once belonged to the Venetians, to Napoleon and to the Austro-Hungarian Empire as well. After the First World War Istria fell under Italian rule, and remained so until after the Second World War when it was ceeded back to Croatia. Along with Marcello Dudovich and Adolfo Hohenstein, Metlicovitz was one of the great Italian poster artists. His style varied greatly over the years encompassing classical realism, film posters, a prodigious out-put for the Mele Department store and more. Probably the least explored aspect of his work are his tourist posters. Here he handles the landscape with the skill of a painter and the composition of a graphic artist.
