Feb 25, 2014 - Sale 2339

Sale 2339 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JULES CHERET (1836-1932) PALAIS DE GLACE / CHAMPS - ELYSEES. 1894.
95x33 inches, 241 1/4x83 3/4 cm. Chaix, Paris.
Condition B+: minor restoration and overpainting in margins and image.
Between 1893 and 1900, Cheret designed seven posters for the Palais de Glace, an ice-skating rink located on the Champs-Elysees. Here, the elongated format which he used for three of the designs, allowed him to more fully render the gracefully-controlled movement of his central figure. Broido 366, Cheret 478, DFP-II 246, Maindron 295, Meisterplakate 49.