Dec 20, 2006 - Sale 2099

Sale 2099 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
D'APRES THEOPHILE-ALEXANDRE STEINLEN (1859-1923) LES CHANSONS & POESIES DU CHAT NOIR. Magazine cover. 1907.
14x10 1/2 inches. Librairie Universelle, Paris.
Condition B+: abrasions, repaired tears and creases in image.
Such was the iconic nature of Steinlen's image for the famed Montmartre Club, Le Chat Noir, that when the songs and poems of the club were memorialized in a magazine, the publishers used Steinlen's image for the cover.