May 09, 2024 - Sale 2668

Sale 2668 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

ALY (DATES UNKNOWN)

CHAUSSURES TENNIS A L'AIGLE. 1923.


62x45½ inches, 157½x115½ cm. Leopold Verger, Paris.
Condition B: bleached spots through image; repaired tears, creases and abrasions in margins, image and along vertical and horizontal folds.

The advertising and printing agency of Leopold Verger & Cie. put out several ads promoting the latest poster designs of "Aly." Other commissions by the otherwise obscure artist were created for companies like Dior, Faunus, and Champagne St. Marceaux. This poster for tennis shoes is printed in one of the Verger & Cie's 1925 ads, as an example of their output. Le Tennis A l'Affiche np.