May 08, 2006 - Sale 2079

Sale 2079 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 2,990
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JOSEPH W. JICHA (1901-?) BAL DES ARTS. 1928.
37 1/4x22 3/4 inches.The Crane Howard Litho., Co., Chicago.
Condition B+: sharp vertical and horizontal folds; creases in image; minor repaired tears and losses in margins. Guest's name is written in colored pencil.
Another of Jicha's extraordinary contributions to the Club's pervasive hedonist oeuvre, featuring a couple, emerging from a flaming blossom, ascending towards a bright star. Bright, bold and daring, this decadent cubist-influenced image is an electric, microcosmic view of one of America's avant-garde art clubs of the 20th century. Posters for these yearly events also served as invitations, with the invitees name written in, in red crayon, at the bottom.