May 07, 2015 - Sale 2382

Sale 2382 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 2,860
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
XANTI SCHAWINSKY (1904-1979) 1934 • XII / SI. Poster insert in La Rivista Illustrata del Popolo Italiano magazine. 1934.
38x25 3/4 inches, 96 1/2x65 1/2 cm. Alfieri E Lacroix, Milan.
Condition B+: tears at edges affecting image; creases in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; light offsetting in lower image. Paper.
Schawinsky studied in Zurich, Cologne, Berlin, with the Bauhaus in Weimar and worked in the Boggieri Studio in Milan for some of Italy's most prestigious advertising clients. In 1936, he emigrated to America at the behest of Josef Albers, who invited him to teach at Black Mountain College, where Schawinsky remained for the duration of the war, working with such luminaries as Breuer and Walter Gropius. This image was included in the April, 1934 issue of the Italian magazine La Revista Illustrata del Popolo d'Italia. Encyclopedie de l'Affiche p. 356, Mechanical Age p. 57 fig 2.6, no. 2, Le Coultre p. 50, Consenso p. 22, Design Graphique 76, Modernism 232, Berman / Juan March p. 138, The Poster 266.