Aug 05, 2015 - Sale 2389

Sale 2389 - Lot 278

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
LEONETTO CAPPIELLO (1875-1942) JACQUIN / LA FOLIE DES BONBONS. 1926.
62x46 3/4 inches, 157 1/2x118 3/4 cm. Devambez, Paris.
Condition B+: restored losses, repaired tears and restoration in margins; creases in margins and image; repaired pin holes in corners. Framed.
This poster was "so well received that she [the female jester-the Folly of Bon Bons] became the firm's trademark, used on all boxes and wrappers of the company" (Cappiello / Rennert p. 272). Cappiello / Rennert 438.