May 10, 2016 - Sale 2414
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Sale 2414 - Lot 55

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
VARIOUS ARTISTS [PHOTOMONTAGE POSTCARDS.] Group of 4. Circa 1930s.
Each approximately 5 1/2x3 1/2 inches, 14x9 cm.
Condition varies, generally A. One with writing on the verso, the others blank.
The avant garde thrived in Czechoslovakia between the wars. Artists such as Karel Teige, Ladislav Sutnar and Ottakar Mrkvicka worked diligently on Functionalist and Constructivist designs for book covers and posters. Their work was widespread and mainstream, making the application of the progressive art of photomontage to the world of postcards unsurprising. Two of these images promote Bata, the famed Czechoslovakian shoe company, and the other two are even more prosaic - one advertising a spa town, Luhacovice, and the other, the city of Prostejov.
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