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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
LIBOS (DATES UNKNOWN) MAGIE NOIR. 1928. 24 3/4x19 inches, 63x48 cm. Condition B+: minor discoloration along sharp vertical and horizontal folds; tears and creases at edges and in image; pinholes in corners. Paper. Paul Morand's Magie Noir was an account of New York's Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. The French publisher Grasset was one of the only one of his contemporaries to use posters to market books (the most famous of which was for another Paul Morand book, Champions du Monde, 1930, with a poster by A. M. Cassandre). This small window poster is an extraordinary and unexpected tribute to jazz and African dance. The artist is completely unknown, but the free-hand drawing, sense of movement and coloring are rarely encountered even in some of the best work from the period by Paul Colin.
