May 25, 2017 - Sale 2449

Sale 2449 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
MIKHAIL OSKAROVICH DLUGACH (1893-1988) [A MOVIE STAR / MABEL NORMAND IN THE TITLE ROLE.] 1927.
28x41 1/2 inches, 71x105 1/2 cm. Sovkina, Moscow.
Condition B+: restored losses and overpainting in top margin and left corners, into image; repaired tears, creases and abrasions in margins and image; horizontal fold. Framed.
Dlugach was one of the giants of avant-garde Soviet film poster design in the 1920s and 1930s. At Reklam Film, the state-run film poster design department, Dlugach worked alongside such renowned designers as the Stenberg Brothers, Nikolai Prusakov and Grigori Borisov, and designed over 500 posters himself.