Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 145

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
IRIBE, PAUL; GEORGE BARBIER and GEORGES LEPAPE / POCHOIR. L'éventail et la Fourrure chez Paquin. 7 color pochoir prints: 4 of hand fans by Georges Lepape (1), Paul Iribe (2), and George Barbier (1); and 3 fashion plates of furs. Folio, 480x336 mm; 19 1/4x14 inches, original boards with pochoir cover design by Paul Iribe, scattered soiling and rubbing, writing on rear cover; one blank tissue guard lacking, others wrinkled and one printed guard torn, light foxing to endpapers, pochoirs bright and with strong coloring. (Paris: Paquin for Maquet, 1911)

Additional Details

one of 300 papiers de luxe copies; this copy out-of-series. A magnificent advertising work displaying fans and fashion, illustrated by the masters of pochoir and commissioned by La Maison Paquin.
The couture house was directed by Jeanne Paquin, one of the first French couturieres to acquire an international reputation at the end of the XIXth century.