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Rudolph de Harak
The Mohammedan World - Holiday Magazine Cover (unpublished)

1962

$5,000
£3,790.95
€4,425.76
CA$7,149.51
A$7,259.74
CHF 4,144.25
MX$87,721.62
NOK 48,680.97
SEK 48,548.15
DKK 33,086.09

About the Item

Cut paper collage for proposed Holiday Magazine Cover. Inscribed on Verso. Rudolph de Harak was a graphic and environmental designer and art director for Seventeen Magazine and a teacher at Cooper Union, Yale, and Parsons School of Design. He is a member of the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame. He created hundreds of posters, record covers, and book jackets, including nearly 350 covers for McGraw-Hill, and did illustrations for Esquire Magazine. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art as well as others. This alternate version of the March 1962 cover of Holiday Magazine features a flat design of a Minaret and the silhouette of a woman in a striped black-and-white burqa, with only her eyes showing. It is a deftly balanced and designed composition, with the shape of the eyes repeated in the gold structure on the right. de Harak was participating in the aesthetic of the day. It was flat and simple, minimalistic and Bauhaus-inspired. Work is unframed. Other practitioners of the early 60's design were Paul Rand, Saul Bass, Alvin Lustig, Will Burtin, György Kepes and art director of Fortune magazine Walter Allner
  • Creator:
    Rudolph de Harak (American)
  • Creation Year:
    1962
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 10.6 in (26.93 cm)Width: 12.6 in (32.01 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    some wear commensurate with age.
  • Gallery Location:
    Miami, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38537872242

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