May 13, 2013 - Sale 2314

Sale 2314 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
F. TARAZONA (DATES UNKNOWN) TEATRO APOLO / VELASCO. Circa 1925.
64x39 inches, 162 1/2x99 cm. J. Ortega, Valencia.
Condition B-: losses, repaired tears, abrasions and restoration along vertical and horizontal folds and in margins and image; extensive creasing throughout; text banner affixed to top. Framed.
We don't know where the Apolo was located (other than in Spain), and there is no listed information on either the artist nor the performer. Yet, this image, which evokes the look and feel of posters emerging from Weimar Germany during the same period, is a paroxysm of 1920s music hall decadence and excess.