Oct 01, 2014 - Sale 2358

Sale 2358 - Lot 184

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(MARTIN, CHARLES.) La Mode en mil neuf cent douze chez Marcelle Demay. Four brightly colored pochoir plates of Parisian fashion hats, by Martin; photographic frontispiece of Mlle. Berthe Cerny of La Comedie Française and four plates of her modeling the hats, with small vignettes along the bottom margins. 4to, color pictorial wrappers by Martin tied with gold cord; very faint scattered spotting. Paris: Draeger Frères, 1912
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Following Paul Poiret's attractive and successful catalogues illustrated by Iribe and Lepape, Demay commissioned noted fashion illustrator Martin to document her hats for the 1912 fashion season. As actress Berthe Cerny created the role of "La Parisienne" at the Comédie Français that year, she was chosen as the perfect model.