?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
JEAN DUPAS (1882-1964) BORDEAUX. 1937. 39x24 inches. Rousseau, Bordeaux. Condition B+: tears along vertical and horizontal folds. Dupas was trained as an academic painter and became a successful graphic designer and interior decorator. His style is the essence of refined and luxurious French Art-Deco, with a sophisticated, if somewhat stiff, elegance. Outside of the poster world he is largely remembered for his illustrations done for Vogue, the splendid brochures done for Max Furrier produced by Draeger and his decorations for the steamship Normandie (now at the MOMA). Within the poster world his most famous work was for the XVme Salon des Artists Decorateurs, and he also designed posters for the fashion world both in Paris and London (Arnold Constable) where he also did work for the London Underground. He designed this poster for Bordeaux, his birth place, in 1937, as a promotion for the city's harbor, wine and monuments. The alluring, Art-Deco, allegorical beauty most likely representing the Garonne (Bordeaux's river) is literally supporting the wonderment of all that Bordeaux has to offer. Weill, p. 188 no. 317.
