Oct 09, 2002 - Sale 1945

Sale 1945 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 748
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
FRITZ RUMPF (1888-1949) PRINCE OF WALES. Circa 1910.
26 1/2x36 1/2 inches. Curt Behrends, Berlin.
Condition B+: minor restoration in corners and along vertical and horizontal folds.
By far Rumpf's biggest client was the men's store Prince of Wales<>, which specialized in formal British clothes and was located in an elegant Berlin neighborhood. Das Frühe Plakat lists seven posters that Rumpf designed for their firm, and he most likely designed their catalogues as well. DFP III 2774.