Apr 24, 2014 - Sale 2346

Sale 2346 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 896
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
WALTER DEXEL (1890-1973) AUSSTELLUNG KUNSTVEREIN JENA. Leaflet. 1923.
5 3/4x11 3/4 inches, 14 1/2x29 3/4 cm.
Condition A- / B+: red underlining in text; vertical folds as issued. Paper.
Dexel's strict Constructivist style "used exclusively typography and abstract geometrical markers" (Avant Garde p. 64). He eschewed pictorial imagery for "the use of ornament based entirely on the precise geometric forms of the rectangle and the circle, and the almost exclusive use of a geometrically based sans-serif type" (Word & Image p. 56). MoMA 653.1999.