Page 35 - Swann Galleries - Modernist Posters - Sale 2314 - May 13, 2013

SIGNATURE ILLEGIBLE
34 ● MESSE / BUDAPEST. 1938.
37x25 inches, 94x631/2 cm.
Condition A.
Many of Hungary’s top artists were enlisted to help promote the yearly trade fair held in the capital city.
Mihály Biró, Sándor Bortnyik, Berény, Konecsni and others contributed images to the series. The designer
of this poster, whose fame does not equal those of his colleagues, designed two images in successive years,
each employing the same cinematic effect of showing grand structures in the city seen from a low
perspective. Illustrated here is the lighthouse on Budapest’s Petofi Bridge, which was constructed in 1937,
designed after the famous Rijeka harbor lighthouse in Croatia. The bridge was destroyed in 1945 when
the Nazis were fleeing the city and the lighthouse was never rebuilt. [800/1,200]
SIGNATURE ILLEGIBLE
35 ● INTERNATIONALE MESSE / BUDAPEST. 1939.
37x25 inches, 94x631/2 cm.
Condition B+: creases, abrasions and restoration in image; minor restoration in margins and corners.
Here, three chimneys illuminated in the colors of the Hungarian flag are filling the sky with the output of their
production (meant to be indicative of the great industrial infrastructure in the country). [800/1,200]
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