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Auction archive: Lot number 156

JEAN MICHEL FOLON (1934-2005) LETTERA 32

Modernist Posters
10 May 2012
Estimate
US$2,500 - US$3,500
Price realised:
US$2,880
Auction archive: Lot number 156

JEAN MICHEL FOLON (1934-2005) LETTERA 32

Modernist Posters
10 May 2012
Estimate
US$2,500 - US$3,500
Price realised:
US$2,880
Beschreibung:

JEAN MICHEL FOLON (1934-2005) LETTERA 32 / OLIVETTI PER TUTTI. 1968. 26 3/4x39 1/4 inches, 68x99 3/4 cm. Condition B+: loss in left image; abrasions and minor staining along bottom edge and in image. Paper. Folon attended architecture school but abandoned that career in the 1960s and moved to New York and later to Paris to work on his art. He quickly distinguished himself as a talented illustrator and was known for watercolor paintings that featured wide gradations of color and recurring symbolic figures with simple outlines. He began working for Olivetti in 1967, a relationship that resulted in several posters, a calendar and a six and a half ton mural in London's Waterloo Station (1975). This poster, his second for the company, has only appeared in red. This white image is a previously unknown variant.

Auction archive: Lot number 156
Auction:
Datum:
10 May 2012
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
Beschreibung:

JEAN MICHEL FOLON (1934-2005) LETTERA 32 / OLIVETTI PER TUTTI. 1968. 26 3/4x39 1/4 inches, 68x99 3/4 cm. Condition B+: loss in left image; abrasions and minor staining along bottom edge and in image. Paper. Folon attended architecture school but abandoned that career in the 1960s and moved to New York and later to Paris to work on his art. He quickly distinguished himself as a talented illustrator and was known for watercolor paintings that featured wide gradations of color and recurring symbolic figures with simple outlines. He began working for Olivetti in 1967, a relationship that resulted in several posters, a calendar and a six and a half ton mural in London's Waterloo Station (1975). This poster, his second for the company, has only appeared in red. This white image is a previously unknown variant.

Auction archive: Lot number 156
Auction:
Datum:
10 May 2012
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
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