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104 - Xanti Schawinski. Princeps. S.A. Cervo Italia. Color lithograph. 1934. 33.0 × 22.8 cm (34.3 × 24.4 cm). Signed in print as “Xanti | studio boggeri.”
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Xanti Schawinski. Princeps. S.A. Cervo Italia. Color lithograph. 1934. 33.0 × 22.8 cm (34.3 × 24.4 cm). Signed in print as “Xanti | studio boggeri.” Call time: approx. 1:00 p.m. (schedule subject to change) The small version of the famous poster. - From 1933 to 1936, the former Bauhaus graphic designer—who also served as the drummer for the Dessau Bauhaus Orchestra—designed numerous posters, brochures, title pages, and store window displays, primarily for the Milan-based Studio Boggeri. The motif of the Greek head “appears several times in the iconography of Herbert Bayer’s advertising graphics, in which he uses it as an ideal image of a holistic human being for a variety of identification purposes” (quoted from the Schwawinski catalog, Berlin 1986, p. 111). — Very well preserved. Schawinski, Berlin 1986, p. 111, with full-page ill. 58 The unprinted lower-right corner has a tiny crease.
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