Nov 29, 2007 - Sale 2130

Sale 2130 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 306
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(PERIODICALS.) Cowles, Fleur; editor. FLAIR Monthly Magazine. Group of 16 volumes including duplicates. Includes: Feb-August 1950 clipped in binder (preserving spines); 2 copies of the bound 1953 Annual; 5 loose issues duplicating those in 1950 volume, plus loose issues of September 1950 (New York City issue) and January 1951. Illustrations and inserts. Folio, original wrappers. New York, 1950-53

Additional Details

A nice run of Fleur Cowles''s fashion- and design-forward tour-de-force. A venerable whos-who of art, design, fashion, and literature, the magazine (and these issues) contain the contributions of Tennessee Williams, Angus Wilson, Jean Cocteau, Walker Evans, Antonio Frasconi, Robert Lowry, Lucien Freud, Dawn Powell, Truman Capote, and others. The inserts by Cocteau, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Saul Steinberg are present.