Apr 24 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2702 -

Sale 2702 - Lot 1

Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

LUCIEN DE ROECK (1915-2002)

ANTWERPEN / WERELDHAVEN EN KUNSTSTAD. 1934.

39½x24¼ inches, 100¼x61½ cm. Fr. de Smet, Antwerp.
Condition A-: minor creases and abrasions in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; overpainting in bottom right corner; repaired pin holes in corners.

"It's easy to appreciate the clever simplicity of this poster's design: a stylized ocean liner is incorporated into the 'cuff' below the palm of the hand, and the silhouetted spire of the Cathedral of Our Lady rises like an emphatic architectural exclamation point through the poster's center" (Crouse p. 282). "The hand represents a story about the origin of the city's name, from a Dutch legend, in which a giant guarded the city and cut off the hands of those refusing to pay a toll. Hand Werpen means hand throwing in Dutch" (ibid.). De Roeck, who designed this poster while an art student in Brussels, won a poster competition in 1934, organized by the mayor of Antwerp.

Crouse p. 283, Weill / Art Deco p. 255, Weill 390, Plakat Kunst p.128.
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