[8th International Eastern Fair in Lviv]. “8th Internationale Ostmesse.” Lviv, 1928; 100 x 69 cm.

[8th International Eastern Fair in Lviv]. “8th Internationale Ostmesse.” Lviv , 1928; 100 x 69 cm.

Poster signed “JP”—the designer is Janina Petry-Przybylska (1898–1960), a graphic artist, set designer, and sculptor who was based in Lviv until 1945. There, she studied at the Faculty of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry at the State Industrial School, and later attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. She collaborated as a graphic artist with publishers in Warsaw and Lviv, practiced printmaking, designed advertisements, exhibition displays, as well as set designs and puppets for theaters. After 1945, she lived and worked in Kraków. A poster advertising the annual exhibition of Polish and foreign industry, held in Lviv from 1921 to 1939. Color lithograph produced at the renowned “Piller-Neumann” studio. Restored (mounted on tissue paper), in good condition. Very rare.
Lit.: A. A. Szablowska, M. Seńkiw, *Polish Posters*, Warsaw 2009, p. 249, item 311, ill. (French version)