May 03, 2018 - Sale 2476

Sale 2476 - Lot 155

Price Realized: $ 975
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
EMIL ALFRED NEUKOMM (1906-1948) PKZ. 1930.
50x35 3/4 inches, 127x90 3/4 cm. Wolfsberg, Zurich.
Condition A-: repaired tears and overpainting in margins, some slightly into image.
A simple image of the PKZ letters blowing in the wind, exposed to snow and rain. One of many of the PKZ images that was based on the different seasons. Neukomm used this basic typographic principle again in 1941 with the letters associated with war-time ration coupons. Schweiz / Plakat p. 236.