May 18, 2023 - Sale 2637

Sale 2637 - Lot 30

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

MIKHAIL OSKAROVICH DLUGACH (1893-1988)

[THE GUILT OF LAVINIA MORLAND]. 1926.


42 1/2x28 1/2 inches, 108x72 1/2 cm. [Sovkino, Moscow].
Condition B+: creases, losses and repaired tears at edges, one into upper image; creases in image. Mounted on paper.

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.