May 09, 2024 - Sale 2668

Sale 2668 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

LAWN - TENNIS IN SPAIN / SAN SEBASTIAN RECREATION CLUB. 1907.


54¼x39½ inches, 137¾x100¼ cm. Bouquet & Barry, Paris.
Condition B+: text sheets attached to bottom part of poster, in two sheets; text sheet cut to outline the image.

This illustration of a fashionable woman enjoying a sunny afternoon, courtside at a tennis tournament, was previously used for the 3rd Concurso Internacional de Lawn-Tennis in 1906; the text sheets were placed over the original text to advertise the event for the following year. "In Barcelona, prominent members of the British community – attracted by the enormous economic growth that the city had experienced with the textile industry – introduced the practice of lawn-tennis and founded the Barcelona Lawn-Tennis Club in April 1899."