Feb 25, 2014 - Sale 2339

Sale 2339 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
PIERRE BONNARD (1867-1947) LES PEINTRES GRAVEURS. 1895.
25 3/4x19 inches, 65 1/2x48 1/2 cm. A. Clot, [Paris.]
Condition B+: minor restored losses and restoration at edges; repaired tears, some affecting image.
This poster advertises an exhibition that Ambroise Vollard organized to launch his first portfolio, L'Album des Peintres Graveurs, which established him as one of the finest, most influential printers in Paris. Depicting an intimate scene of a woman seated alone and admiring a print, Bonnard only uses three colors. Masterfully using the blank paper, he plays a sophisticated game with the solid color masses of the background. The typography is most ingeniously handled, presented in a black-and-white fashion that would not be seen again until the avant-garde posters of the 1930s. Bouvet 38, DFP-II 78, Modern Poster p. 8, Gold 184.