May 25, 2017 - Sale 2449

Sale 2449 - Lot 125

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BERNARD VILLEMOT (1911-1989) [ADVERTISING.] Two posters. Circa 1949.
Each approximately 61x44 inches, 155x111 3/4 cm. Giraudy, Paris.
Condition varies, generally B+ / A-.
These stock posters (the blank area in each could be filled in with the names of stores) are stylistically unique among Villemot's work. The images of the people, delineated with a white outline against a flat, monochromatic background, are unusual for the artist, as is the level of graphic sophistication employed in showing a tailored-man emerging from a bolt of cloth. Villemot 317, 318.