Nov 10, 2008 - Sale 2161

Sale 2161 - Lot 115

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CONRADO WALTER MASSAGUER (1889- ?) VISIT CUBA. Circa 1950.
19 1/4x12 inches, 49x30 1/2 cm. Artes Graficas, Havana.
Condition A- / B+: creases and abrasions in margins and image.
Massaguer was one of Cuba's great cartoonists, caricaturists and graphic artists. He was the Art Director of the magazine Social (founded in 1916), had many of his caricatures published in American magazines (Life, Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair) and designed art work for Cuba's pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. This same image was also used on postcards bearing the caption "So Near and yet so Foreign." Rare.