506 - Alfred Roller (1864 Brno – Vienna 1935)

Alfred Roller (1864 Brno – Vienna 1935) Secession XVIth Exhibition Poster. Color lithograph on cream-colored vellum, laminated on the reverse with Japanese paper. (1902). Consists of 2 sheets, total dimensions approx. 183 x 59.5 cm (total sheet size approx. 187.5 x 63.5 cm). Print run unknown. Inscriptions in a third party’s hand in the lower right and left corners. • A significant example of Viennese Secession printmaking and innovative poster design around 1900 • Designed for the 16th Exhibition of the Vienna Secession in 1903, which was dedicated to the development of Impressionism in painting and sculpture • Characteristic combination of geometric ornamentation, flat color schemes, and experimental typography Exhibitions: Poster Show, Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York 1976, cat. no. 17; Egon Schiele and Vienna at the Turn of the Century, Isetan Museum, Shinjuku, Tokyo, et al., 1986, cat. no. 152, color ill., p. 198; Gustav Klimt – an exhibition of drawings and a selection of paintings by Gustav Klimt, works by Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele, as well as posters from the Vienna Secession, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, 1989, cat. no. 173; Gustav Klimt, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence 1991/92, cat. no. 113; Sécession. L’Art Graphique à Vienne autour de 1900, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Paris 1999; Neue Galerie Museum, New York 2009–2011; Neue Galerie Museum, New York 2017–2019. Provenance: Serge Sabarsky Collection/Estate, New York; Vally Sabarsky Collection/Foundation, New York. Taxation: subject to regular taxation (VAT: Regular Taxation).