Live auction - Lot 541
Theater program: Jean Gabriel Borkman (Ibsen mit Leuchtturm).
1897
€ 600 / 800
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Lot description
Lithograph, 20 x 31,5 cm, wove paper 28 x 38 cm; signed in the stone, marg. printed text (marg. tears, single small marg. lack of paper, corners sl. defect. with traces of sellotape).
Rare small poster published in "L'Art et la Scène", announcing the play "John Gabriel Borkman", written in 1896, by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Here performed by the Lugné-Poe's Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, with Lugné-Poe himself in the role of Borkman. This small poster is a portrait of Ibsen, also published before the letterpress.
Ref. National Gallery of Art (= Woll 2001: 108, state 1/b). - Van Gogh Museum (= Aitken 94, Eckert Boyer 62).
Joined: 3 other posters, large size (Exposition internationale [...] Lugano ill. by Max Hunziker, 1956. - Chr. Rohlfs, 1959, - Pougny, 1961). (4 pcs)