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MARCELLO DUDOVICH (1878-1962)
LLOYD TRIESTINO INDIA / EXPRESS SERVICE TO BOMBAY VIA ITALY. Circa 1938.
37 3/4x24 3/4 inches, 95 3/4x62 3/4 cm. I.G.A.P., Milan. Condition A- / B+: minor repaired tears in top margins; expertly-repaired tear at top edge, slightly into image; minor creases in corners.
Dudovich was one of the most prolific and important of the Italian poster artists. He designed more than six hundred posters in a career that spanned more than half a century. His formative years were spent working under Adolfo Hohenstein and Leopoldo Metlicovitz at the G. Ricordi printing company in Milan, where he worked exclusively up until the First World War (for a few years, between 1899-1906, he left to work with a different printer Chappuis, in Bologne). After the war ended, Dudovich became the art director at IGAP, another large printer in Milan, where he designed a number of posters advertising the exotic destinations along the Lloyd Triestino shipping routes. This is the English language version.
