CYRK... Posters at Swann Galleries' Summer Auction

CYRK... Posters at Swann Galleries' Summer Auction


A quartet of museum-quality, rare 1970s CYRK posters will be on auction for the first time at the Swann Galleries Inc. sale in New York City on August 2nd, 2000.

Clown face with derby - the only CYRK poster to be made into a postage stamp - will be the featured CYRK poster. CYRK... original Polish art/circus posters are the most highly-acclaimed and recognized posters of the world-famous Polish School of Posters. The Polish School of Posters changed the face of contemporary poster design forever and set the standards others follow. It possessed a genius not seen in one country since France's ‘La Belle Époque' of the 1890s.

The Republic of Poland issued the Clown face with derby stamp (a 2500 zloty stamp) in 1992 as a tribute to the popularity of both the poster and the artist as well as CYRK (the Polish circus). The Clown face with derby poster by Waldemar Swierzy is one of more than 200 different CYRK posters by more than 75 artists commissioned by the Polish government during the goldezzn era of the Polish School of Posters (post-WWII [1945 until the fall of Communism [1989). The artist, Waldemar Swierzy (b.1931), is one of Poland's most prominent posterists. His varied style is innovative often employing unusual concepts - of which Clown face with derby (1970) is a prime example.

The other CYRK posters to be auctioned are: Elvis hound dog (1970) a paean to American culture by Jerzy Treutler, a significant 1960-70's CYRK artist; 3 bikers (1974) a colorful psychedelic image by Jan Sawka, currently a foremost Polish-American theater set designer and Gal roller skating (c.1972) a joyful exuberant poster by Anna Kozniewska, one of the few women CYRK artists.

The mid-summer poster sale at the Swann Galleries, 105 E. 25th St., New York City, will also include vintage posters by such well-recognized artists as Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec and Mucha as well as other rare images.



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