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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
ALICE RUSSEL GLENNY (1858-1924) WOMENS EDITION / (BUFFALO) COURIER. 1895. 27x19 3/4 inches, 68 1/2x50 1/4 cm. The Courier Litho Co, Buffalo, New York. Condition B+: repaired tears at edges, some into image; restored losses, creases and overpainting in margins; minor creases in image. Trained in Paris and New York as a painter specializing in murals, Alice Russel Glenny designed only two posters (the other was for the Buffalo Fine Art Academy & Society of Artists). With a "firm and assured" hand, she produced a perfect archetypal Art Nouveau portrait of a woman that is less rigid than most of the American Art Nouveau images of the time. This explains the success that this image had in America and in Europe, where it was considered one of the best American posters. "The design has the cool, classical frontality that could be perfectly at home in one of McKim, Mead, and White's classical-revival buildings" (Kiehl p. 187). Maitres pl. 60, Etrangeres (with incorrect attribution), Kiehl p. 34, Margolin p. 182.
