May 09, 2024 - Sale 2668

Sale 2668 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

LEFOR-OPENO (MARIE-CLAIRE LEFORT & MARIE-FRANCINE OPPENEAU)

FRANCE / VICHY. 1960.


39¼x24¼ inches, 99¾x61½ cm. Lalande-Courbet, Wissous.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges, some slightly into image; archival tape on verso; creases and minor abrasions at edges and in image. Paper.

Lefor-Openo is the joint pseudonym of French illustrators Marie-Claire Lefort and Marie-Francine Oppeneau, who met as students at Lycée Claude-Bernard Paris, then collaborated on posters between 1955 and 1967. Their colorful, playful designs advertise a range of products, films, travel destinations, and the Loterie Nationale, and some of their artwork features on the products themselves (tins, dolls, postcards, tea towels, etc.)