May 03, 2010 - Sale 2213

Sale 2213 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 14,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
A. M. CASSANDRE (ADOLPHE MOURON, 1901-1968) GRAND SPORT. 1925.
31 1/2x23 inches, 80x59 cm. Hachard & Co., Paris.
Condition A-: minor restoration along horizontal fold; abrasions in image.
One of the first fashion advertising posters to show the direct influence of Cubism with the figure's face and profile represented at the same time. The manner in which the legibility and message are achieved, through a strict geometrical approach tempered with shimmering airbrush treatment around the solid colors, became the artist's signature for years. The vertical composition is completed by the elegant, hand-drawn, sans-serif lettering. This is the smaller of two sizes. Mouron pl. 3, Cassandre / Suntory 5, Brown & Reinhold 7.