[Jugendstil Printing- Elephant Folio Announcement] Gesellschaft fur Vervielfaltigende Kunst (The Society for Reproducing Art in Vienna)

1909.

Elephant Folio, 23 x 18 inches. Announcement for the Work. Four pages (a folded large sheet), printed on green card wrapper in black, with superb cover illustrated design of stylized painters, stamped in black and bright red and monogramed, ìM.î With the year, 1909 printed on front cover. The annual folder of the Society for Multiplying Art issued issued in 1909 by the Austrian organization, Gesellschaft fur Vervielfaltigende Kunst (The Society for Reproducing Art in Vienna). Translated from section inside: ìThe gallery work, as in the past, is destined to become the center of an independent activity of the society in the service of art under the influence of changing art views, now turning attention to the original graphic artÖ All sheets published in the annual folder. The usual edition of the annual folder alone costs 20 Marks an edition, Limited to 30 copies of unsigned priority prints, from the imperial-royal issue, and printed in ViennaÖî etc. Fine condition. Scarce for an item of this size and vintage.

Price: $450.00   Item #6208