Dec 14, 2017 - Sale 2465

Sale 2465 - Lot 213

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
LEO KERZ.
"Tenement." Set design for an unspecified play. Gouache on board. 216x381 mm; 8 1/2x15 inches. Signed in lower right image in paint and again in pencil, lower margin. Window matte adhered to recto.
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Kerz (1912 - 1976) was a German emigré who enjoyed a successful career in lighting and scenic design on Broadway for three decades. He is best known for producing Eugene Ionesco's masterpiece of absurdist theater, Rhinoceros, in 1961, for which Zero Mostel won his first Tony Award. After his death in 1966, Kerz's widow Louise married the famous caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld.