Jan 28, 2016 - Sale 2403

Sale 2403 - Lot 226

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
MAX RÉE.
Group of 3 watercolor and ink drawings of costume designs for 1920s Broadway productions. Two are 210x330 mm; 13x8 1/2 inches. The other is 430x300 mm; 17x12 inches. Each mounted to black paper and signed in pencil lower right.

Additional Details

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.