?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ETHEL REED (1876-?) FOLLY OR SAINTLINESS. 1895. 20 1/4x15 inches, 51 1/2x38 cm. Heliotype Ptg. Co., Boston. Condition B+: restored losses, repaired tears, creases and abrasions in margins. repaired pin holes in corners. Mounted on Japan. "The work of Ethel Reed stands out for notice and high appreciation, not only because of its great artistic qualities, but because she . . . looks at the world as a gracious moving surface, infinitely shaded; she leaves success to itself, as if the world were a theatre of fairies, an adorable procession of passing impressions" (S.C. de Soissons, The Poster, November 1898). "There is a happy balance between the abstract elements of the pattern and representational details of the design" (The American Poster p. 19). Kiehl 239, DFP-I 421, Reims 1284, Virginia p. 87, Margolin p. 169, Keay p. 18, American Style 38.
