?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
EDWARD PENFIELD (1866-1925)
HARPER'S FOR JUNE. 1893.
18 3/4x12 3/4 inches, 47 1/2x32 1/2 cm. Condition A: minor creases in image. Paper.
"Penfield was probably the first American artist to realize the possibilities of an aesthetic and unified design in posters . . . his stylized, uncluttered illustrations, which clearly draw their inspiration from the Japanese print, were inventively executed . . . [and] reveal a fundamental understanding of the psychology of effective publicity in their presentation of the escapist, the select and the elegant" (Keay p. 8). Kiehl 140, DFP-I 323, The Met 1984.1202.72.
