Oct 14, 2014 - Sale 2360

Sale 2360 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
LEONETTO CAPPIELLO (1875-1942) LE GOLF DE FONT - ROMEU. 1929.
39x24 3/4 inches, 99x63 cm. Devambez, Paris.
Condition A-: minor restoration at edges; minor creases in margins. Framed.
Known for both its winter and summertime sporting activities, the famed resort at Font-Romeu is pictured here in autumn. A lithe young golfer's scarf is billowing in the wind, echoing the lines of blowing grass on the hillside, with the majestic hotel on the hilltop in the background. With well over 500 posters to his name, fewer then ten of them are travel posters. Cappiello / Rennert 473, Voyage p. 75, Le Sport 170, Train 245, Pyrenees p. 95.