Aug 01, 2012 - Sale 2284

Sale 2284 - Lot 207

Unsold
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
JOHN HELD, JR. (1899-1958) THE ENCHANTED ISLE / MARTHA'S VINEYARD. 1934.
41 1/2x28 inches, 105 1/2x71 cm. Plampin Litho. Co., New York.
Condition B+: repaired tears and restoration in margins and corners; repaired tear through bottom margin affecting text.
John Held Jr., a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook and other popular magazines was one of America's top cartoonists in the 1920s and 1930s. His immediately recognizable flapper girls were a tremendous sensation and came to be the visual epitomization of the roaring 20s.