Aug 05, 2009 - Sale 2185

Sale 2185 - Lot 344

Price Realized: $ 861
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
GEORGE PETTY (1884-1975) DE VILBISS PERFUME SPRAYS. Circa 1930.
36x25 1/4 inches, 92x65cm. A. C. Schulz Lithograph Co., Milwaukee.
Condition A. Paper.
An un-cut advertising display for an atomizer, featuring an Art Deco image of a platinum-haired flapper emerging from a stylized pastel lavender, orange, green and yellow backdrop; lettering in gilt. Petty was one of the foremost pin-up artists of his day and "Petty Girls" became part of the American visual vernacular.