Aug 03, 2011 - Sale 2252

Sale 2252 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
ETHEL REED (1876-?) MISS TRÄUMEREI. 1895.
21 1/2x13 1/2 inches, 54 1/2x34 1/4 cm. Lamson, Wolffe & Co., Boston.
Condition A / A-: minor creases and abrasions in margins and image; punch holes in top margin; pin-holes in bottom corners.
The inherent Japonisme, composition and color of this book advertisement were such that in its time a critic declared, "artistically refined people are in ecstasies [over this poster]" (S. C. de Soissons, The Poster, November, 1898). Her work was exclusively for Lamson, Wolfe & Co. Kiehl 235, DFP I 417, Reims 1288, Virginia p. 88, Maîtres pl. 99, Maîtres 1900 p. 118, Margolin p. 168, Keay p. 18, Gold 80.