May 10, 2012 - Sale 2278

Sale 2278 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
OSKAR SCHLEMMER (1888-1943) GROSSE BRUCKEN REVUE. Postcard. 1926.
5 3/4x4 1/4 inches, 14 1/2x11 cm. Gebruder Frey, Frankfurt.
Condition A: writing on verso.
Schlemmer was a highly influential professor of sculpture and stage design at the Bauhaus. This image advertises a pantomime in three parts for the opening of the Frankfurt Bridge. This image also exists as a poster. MOMA 352.1937, LACMA AC1992.238.1, Schlemmer p. 310, Modern Poster 92 (var), Theaterplakate 191 (var).