Feb 25, 2014 - Sale 2339

Sale 2339 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
J.J. WALTZ (HANSI, 1873-1951) FIDELES COMPAGNONS DU BUVEUR / MISERE & MORT. 1905.
22 3/4x13 1/2 inches, 58x34 1/2 cm. Berger-Levrault, Paris.
Condition A-: repaired tears and overpainting in margins.
Across the street from Montmartre's Moulin Rouge, a man at an outdoor cafe is sitting with what any prohibitionist considers a drinker's closest companions: the appropriately greenish specters of misery and death.