?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
NIKLAUS STOECKLIN (1896-1982)
META. 1941.
50x35 1/2 inches, 127x90 1/4 cm. Wassermann, Basel. Condition B+: mat-staining around edges of image; repaired tears at edges, some into right image; small losses and replaced losses in margins; creases and restoration along horizontal folds; repaired pin holes in corners. Mounted on Japan.
For this image promoting easy to light, small charcoal briquettes for heating, one is immediately reminded of Lucian Bernhard's influential 1906 Object Poster for Priester matches. Stoecklin takes the realism even further, with near photographic perfection as he even depicts the splintering of the wood along the matchstick itself. Stoecklin p. 34, Swiss Poster Art 41.6, Margadant 409, Realismes 78, Magic of Things 6.
