Dec 16, 2004 - Sale 2028

Sale 2028 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
CHARLE LUCAS LE JOURNAL / "SUZANNE." 1897.
83x39 inches. Charles Verneau, Paris.
Condition B+: staining along sharp vertical and horizontal folds; replaced paper and restoration in top right corner. Two-sheets.
Practically no biographical information has survived about Lucas, an illustrator who designed a dozen posters primarily to advertise novels published in Le Journal, but also for shows. In all of his highly decorative images he depicted elegant young women in a soft palette.