Roumanie
Artist
Petre Grant
Printer
Luceafarul S. A., Bucuresti
Romania
Datec. 1934
Dimensions38 3/4 x 26 in. (98.4 x 66 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Peter A. Blatz
Object numberPH.134
DescriptionThis is one of several travel posters created by Petre Grant, probably the leading graphic designer in Romania before World War II. It was produced at a point when a number of Romanian artists were working in the European avant-garde modernist styles that would later disappear there under Soviet rule. Grant trained as an engineer in Paris before establishing a career as a graphic designer specializing in posters, book illustrations, and advertising. His posters won the Grand Prix at the Romanian Pavilion at the Exposition universelle in Paris in 1937. Most of his posters reflect the prevailing Art Deco style, with simple, stylized forms and repeated symmetries. In this poster, Grant establishes a dramatic sense of motion; the sportsman’s skis form a bold diagonal that dominates the foreground of the image while the skier himself almost disappears in the flurry of snow raised by them as he flies in the air.On View
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