May 10, 2016 - Sale 2414

Sale 2414 - Lot 180

Price Realized: $ 1,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
RAYMOND SAVIGNAC (1907-2002) YOU GET FUN OUT OF LIFE. 1954.
46x59 inches, 117x150 cm.
Condition B: losses and tears at edges; small tear in left image; sharp creases and abrasions in margins and image; metal grommets in three corners. Mounted on Chartex.
By the middle of the 1950s, Savignac had gained a worldwide reputation and was commissioned by Young and Rubicam to design a campaign for Life Magazine: 12 visual gags giving 12 good reasons to read Life. It was a stylistic revolution and the campaign won first prize at the National Poster Awards in Chicago in 1955. From a series of 12. Savignac pp. 420-424, International Poster Annual 1956 no. 502.