Lot #32: MIKHAIL LARIONOV - Bal de Grande Ourse…8 Mai 1925 - Original color lithographs & letterpress

   

Artist: Mikhail Larionov (Russian, 1881 - 1964).
Title: "Bal de Grande Ourse…8 Mai 1925 [variation #2]".
Medium: Original color lithographs & letterpress.
Date: Composed 1925. Printed 1925.
Dimensions: Overall size: 19 5/8 x 12 3/4 in. (498 x 324 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $700
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $1,000/1,200
Lot Note(s): Edition size unknown, presumed very small. Greyish wove paper. Full margins. Very good impression. Very good condition; folds as issued; pronounded letterpress printing; one small 1/2" vertical tear top center, hardly visible, near the fold line, not into image.
Comment(s): Another impression of this poster sold at Swann Galleries, NYC (Modernist Posters, #2079) - 05/08/2006 - lot#88 - for $2,070 on a pre-sale estimate of $2,000/3,000. Our example lists the names of well over 200 artists. The recto and verso with brown ink on light greyish paper. Double-sided poster with extensive text, musical scores, etc. and with a Henri Laurens lithograph (3 1/8 x 8 7/8 in) on verso, initialed in the stone. [29430-3-700-NA]