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MAX RÉE. Three proposed New Yorker covers. One finished in watercolor and ink; one partly finished with The New Yorker logo penned in; and one partly colored, without lettering. Each approximately 267x368 mm; 10 1/2x14 1/2 inches. Only one is signed, lower right.
Rée (1889-1953) was a Danish-born costume designer. He worked as a stage designer for Max Reinhardt in the early 1920s before moving to the U.S. as a costume designer for MGM in Hollywood, creating Greta Garbo's wardrobe for Torrent and The Temptress, her first two American film. He then moved to New York as set and costume designer for such classic Broadway productions as Earl Carroll's Vanities, Greenwich Village Follies, and Music Box Revue. While in New York City, he designed several covers for The New Yorker (4 of which were published in 1925). He returned to Hollywood two years later and, in 1931, won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Cimarron.
