Dec 20, 2006 - Sale 2099

Sale 2099 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
GEORGES REDON (1869-1943) SCALA / VOYAGES D'AMOUR. 1904.
47 3/4x31 7/8 inches. Minot, Paris.
Condition B+: minor repaired tears in margins; pinholes in corners. Mounted on board.
A textbook image from the Redon school of Music Hall posters, showing a young, sexy girl and a rich, dirty old man sitting in a train carriage. In this instance, the profound ugliness and latent perversion depicted in the older man takes the already cynical behind-the-scenes "fairy tale" to a new level of exaggeration. A real voyage d'amour.