May 05, 2011 - Sale 2246

Sale 2246 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
JEAN DUPAS (1882-1964) ARNOLD CONSTABLE. 1928.
47 1/2x30 3/4 inches, 120 1/2x78 cm. Tolmer, Paris.
Condition B+: discoloration in right margin; creases and abrasions in margins and image.
In the sophisticated Art Deco style of allegorical fantasies that was a hallmark of Dupas' work, a fashion poster commissioned by the Arnold Constable department store, depicting three women, dressed in the fashions of the past, present, and future, amid lush, slightly surrealistic scenery. Tolmer p. 79.