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MAX RÉE. Group of 2 gouache and ink drawings of costume designs for 1920s Broadway productions. Each approximately 320x210 mm; 12 3/4x8 1/2 inches, mounted to larger sheet. Each captioned "gouache over pencil, mounted at corners" and "costume for Jazz Toe Ballet 1924 for Constance Bennett, the Nordic Flapper." One with a red fabric swatch tacked to upper left corner. Signed in pencil lower right.
Rée was a Danish-born costume designer who moved to the United States as a costume designer for Max Reinhart. He came to New York as a set and costume designer for such classic flapper-era productions as Earl Carroll's Vanities and Music Box Revue. He also designed covers for The New Yorker, 4 of which were published in 1925.
