?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ANONYMOUS FUNNY? 1929. 433/4x361/4 inches. Mather & Co., Chicago. Condition A-: minor repaired tears and creases in margins and image; punch holes in top margin. As seen in Larry David's office on the television show Curb Your Enthusiasm, this bright yellow poster features a clown in purple, red and green kicking his black hat into the air; lettering in red and green. From 1923-1929, the Mather Company produced a series of posters which owner Charles Mather deemed "Constructive Organization Posters." They have since come to be known as the Mather Work Incentive Posters. "Aimed at improving the work practices of employees in industry and commerce" in the boom times following the First World War, Mather combined striking bold graphics, direct messages and superb lithography to create "one of the most outstanding continuous series of graphically significant posters ever produced in America." (FAMLI).
