Magazine cover POLSKA, multicolor, by L. Zahorski, Poland, 1950s.
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This framed cover of the ‘POLSKA’ magazine from September 1956, designed by Lech Zahorski, offers a vivid example of post-war Polish modernist graphic design. Its central motif—a symmetrical, stylized tree with spreading branches bearing flowers, leaves, and birds, all rising from a bold, carmine-red vase—anchors the composition on a field of wide horizontal stripes in warm beige and deep anthracite. The palette is built from matte, saturated yellows, blues, greens, reds, browns, and oranges, placed in flat areas without tonal transitions, evoking the effect of a hand-cut folk paper collage. Careful framing with a slender black frame (30 × 40 cm) and a crisp white passe-partout underscores its collectible and archival sensibility, while a small matte label ‘POLSKA’ in the upper corner, set in minimalist modernist typography, completes the graphic whole. The print surface remains smooth and intensely colored with the original matte finish, displaying no traces of aging or discoloration. Condition: very good, free of damage—the artwork and frame are in excellent preserved condition.In its visual language, this cover speaks with the voice of the late 1950s in Poland—a moment when modernist principles intertwined playfully with local folk art traditions. The Kurpie cut-out motif meets bold geometry and luminous color, carrying a narrative of postwar optimism and the search for a shared vocabulary between newness and heritage. The tree ‘t
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Width30 cm
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Height40 cm
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