May 13, 2013 - Sale 2314

Sale 2314 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JACQUES NATHAN-GARAMOND (1910-2001) MAZDA / COMPAGNIE DES LAMPES. Circa 1956.
63x45 1/2 inches, 160x115 1/2 cm. S.A. Courbet, Paris.
Condition B+: creases, abrasions and restoration in margins and image.
Nathan was a product of the French Art Deco school of the 1930s, and was a member of the UAM (Union des Artistes Modernes) alongside such important artists as Cassandre, Carlu, Loupot, and Colin. Nathan was encouraged by Carlu to do the posters for l'Habitation, a section of the huge Salon des Arts Menagers. After the Second World War he developed his own personal style. Among his clients were firms that produced household and domestic appliances. Mazda was one of his first major clients and he worked with them from 1938 through the 1960s.