May 03, 2010 - Sale 2213

Sale 2213 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
LUDWIG HOHLWEIN (1874-1949) DIRECT CHINA COTTON IMPORTERS. Circa 1910.
32x23 inches, 81 1/2x58 1/2 cm. Vereinigte Druckereien & Kunstanstalten, Munich.
Condition A. Paper.
This extremely rare image is in many ways the sister poster to Hohlwein's better-known and better-referenced image for Marco Polo Tee (see Swann Modernist Poster Auction # 1935, lot 14). This is one of two images he created for the New Hampshire-based company.