May 05, 2011 - Sale 2246

Sale 2246 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
FREDERIC HENRI KAY HENRION (1914-1990) VD / A SHADOW ON HAPPINESS. 1943.
29x19 1/2 inches, 73 1/2x49 1/2 cm. Flemings, Leicester.
Condition B+: restoration and overpainting along vertical and horizontal folds; restoration at edges.
Born in Germany, Henrion went to Paris to study with Paul Colin and there discovered the work of Cassandre, as well as the Surrealists, which gave him a taste for collage and photomontage. He moved to London in 1939 and quickly became a prominent graphic designer. IWM II p. 64.