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Advertisement for Calpis: Second Prize Winner for Poster Design

Max Bittorf (German, dates unknown)
Publisher: Calpis Inc.
Japanese
Taishô era
1924 (Taishô 13)

Medium/Technique Color lithograph; ink on card stock
Dimensions Overall: 13.8 x 8.8 cm (5 7/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Leonard A. Lauder
Accession Number2003.554
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPostcards

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, The Art of the Japanese Postcard (2004), cat. #256; Barros coll. exh. cat. (Sogo Mus., Yokohama, 1992), #IX-2
ProvenanceBy 1991 Philippe Barros, Paris, France; by 2002 to Karl Jaeger, Bath, England; June 18, 2003 Sale by Karl Jaeger at Christie's London, lot 401, and purchased by the MFA.