Apr 17, 2014 - Sale 2345

Sale 2345 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(COLLAGE)
Collage of Napoleon Bonaparte in his classic pose, which is composed of 12 real photo postcards. The pictorial composition of each print situates the actors in one area of the image while a montaged photographic reproduction (of an historic engraving) is in an another. The entire set combines to present a puzzle-like presentation of a Napoleon in a full standing pose. Images depict Napoleon as both a loving husband and father (with Josephine and his daughter) and a keen military strategist, who gallantly prances on a white horse and is ready for battle. Real photo silver print postcards, 3 1/4x5 1/2 inches (8.3x14 cm.), overall size 22x11 inches (55.9x27.9 cm.), a few are delicately hand-tinted, and with 12 red canceled postage stamps bearing the marks of Anvers and Antwerp; framed. 1910
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From the Collection of John Silverstein.

An early and remarkable example of photographic collage that presents the French emperor in all his imperial glory.