Dec 20, 2006 - Sale 2099

Sale 2099 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
JULES CHERET (1836-1932) SAXOLEINE. 1900.
48 3/4x34 inches. Chaix, Paris.
Condition B+: repaired tears, restored losses and overpainting in margins, corners and sharp vertical and horizontal folds.
Throughout this ten year span, we can see Cheret's style fully develop to the point where he is so expertly using the three primary colors, red, yellow and blue, plus black, that the colors literally explode off the poster. That all of the Saxoleine posters were readily identifiable, built an impressive visual ensemble that is the forerunner of the modern advertising campaign. Broido 958, Maindron 758.