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Saturday, 02 December 2017, 02:00 pm

Otto Baumberger, FIRN ICE CREAM

Lot 2081

Otto Baumberger, 1889-1961 (CH)

FIRN ICE CREAM, 1926

Lithograph printed in colors.
H 1280 mm W 900 mm.

J.C. Müller, Zürich 8

Annotation:

Condition: A-/B+/J.

Literature:
Reihe Poster Collection 1, 2001. No. 47;
Reihe Plakatgestalter 4, 1988. Page 39, No. 126.

A fashionable young woman holds up a packet of Swiss “Firn” ice cream against an ice-blue sky with snowy mountains in the background – a perfect allusion to the product. A rare 1930s ice cream advertisement by the talented Zurich poster master Otto Baumberger.

*CHF2'000 / 4'000
*EUR1'800 / 3'600
*USD2'100 / 4'200

Hammer Price: CHF 1'800