Feb 11, 2016 - Sale 2405

Sale 2405 - Lot 199

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
GAMY (MARGUERITE MONTAUT, DATES UNKNOWN) [TRANSPORTATION ILLUSTRATIONS.] Two hand-colored pochoirs. Circa 1909.
Each approximately 13x30 inches, 33x76 3/4 cm. Mabileau, Paris.
Condition varies, generally B+: top and side margins trimmed.
"Montaut, the wife of the famed French automobile illustrator Ernest Montaut, is widely believed to be the artist whose signature 'Gamy' appears on a number of hand-colored lithographs celebrating feats of aviation and automobiling" (Julie Wosk, Women and the Machine).