May 05, 2003 - Sale 1970

Sale 1970 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
PAUL DAVIS. Group of 3 posters and one drawing. Circa 1978.
Sizes vary.
Condition varies, generally B+. Each hand-signed and numbered, in pencil, by the artist.
A talented illustrator and an early member of New York's famous Pushpin Studio, Davis was involved in numerous projects before he hit the mainstream in the 1970s with his series of posters for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. His "unique confluence of primitive and folk arts brought a fresh new American look to illustration . . . his style had a staggering impact on the field " (http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?contentalias=pauldavis). East Hampton / Guild Hall, 1977, East Hampton Classic, 1978, Guthrie Theatre / A Christmas Carol, 1978 and a 1969, hand-drawn Christmas greeting of an elaborately carved cane handle.