Graphic Design: May 19, 2022 Auction Highlights

Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, *Triplex,* original pencil maquette, circa 1931. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000.

This admired sale is coming together in a powerful way. This auction is led by A.M. Cassandre’s most memorable and scarce images, LMS / Best Way, 1928 — it has been nine years since a copy last appeared on the market (see the cover of our Winter-Spring 2022 issue of The Trumpet). Cassandre is also represented by an exquisite signed pencil study for his famous Triplex poster.

Art Deco

Art Deco, Cubist and Futurist aficionados will be besotted with two offerings by Marcello Nizzoli for Campari, each 1926. Other important works from the first half of the twentieth century include a complete run of Czechoslovakia’s Zijeme magazine, 1931–32, with its memorable and sophisticated photomontage cover designs by Ladislav Sutnar—a desirable item for collectors in its unbound state.

Among the best-known classics of Modern graphic design will be Erik Nitsche’s USS Nautilus, 1955, and Paul Rand’s first printing of his famous IBM, 1982.

Toyonosuke Kurozumi, *(Osaka Railways / Shirosaki in Winter),* circa 1935. Estimate $2,500 to $3,500.

International Art Nouveau

Claude Fayette Brandon, *The Chap Book,* circa 1895. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.

Automobiles

Grief (Maurice Grieffenhagen), *Pontiac 6 / Production General Motors,* circa 1930. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000.

Harry Whincap, *“BP” / The Spirit For Speed,* circa 1930s. Estimate $1,000 to $1,500.

The auction features many incredible and surprising books and ephemeral graphics, with cover designs and layouts by some of the most cherished and talented designers, including the finest and brightest color copy that we have ever seen of Claude Fayette Bragdon’s The Chap Book, circa 1895, and one of the most complete runs of Das Plakat that we have come across.