May 10, 2016 - Sale 2414

Sale 2414 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
CHRIS LEBEAU (1878-1945) HAMLET. 1914.
48x32 1/4 inches, 122x82 cm. Van Mortelmans' Drukkereij, [Antwerp.]
Condition B+: minor restoration and abrasions along vertical and horizontal folds. Framed.
Lebeau was active in all branches of the decorative arts and had an extensive art education around Holland, studying with many of the most prominent artists and theorists of his era. He worked actively as an artist and as a teacher himself in Haarlem between 1900-1913. He ultimately moved to Czechoslovakia and then Berlin; he died in Dachau. Modern Dutch 37, Dutch Poster 145, Berman / Juan March p. 163.