May 21, 2009 - Sale 2181

Sale 2181 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 5,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
A. M. CASSANDRE (ADOLPHE MOURON, 1901-1968) PARIS. 1935.
39 1/4x24 1/8 inches, 100x61 cm. Draeger.
Condition B+: restored losses and restoration in margins and corners, some slightly affecting image.
Although produced in the same year as his fabled Normandie poster, this image is an indication of the direction Cassandre's work would take once he moved to America in 1936. It is done in a "charming, dreamy" symbolic style based on Surrealism and, indeed, elements of Magritte can be seen; it is a "foreglimpse of Cassandre's later stage designs" (Mouron p. 71). Mouron 53, Train 267 Voyage p. 141, Reclame 99.