Apr 21, 2005 - Sale 2039

Sale 2039 - Lot 120A

Price Realized: $ 2,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
URBANA CORVA (1901-1986) 3A MOSTRA DEL MARE. 1935.
39x261/2 inches. Leghissa M. Cozzi, Trieste.
Condition A-: minor creases and abrasions in image.
Corva designed at least two posters for the Mostra del Mare in Trieste (although Bolaffi only credits him with having designed one poster. Bolaffi p. 65). Clearly influenced by Depero's Manifesto del Arte Pubblicitaria (1932) Corva uses his cubo-futurist sailor to organize the flowing red typography. The rest of the text is also designed in a modernistic style and well-integrated into the image.