?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
RENÉ GAILLARD (DATES UNKNOWN)
COCAÏNE. Circa 1925.
62x45 inches, 157 1/2114 cm. Condition A-: minor repaired tears, replaced losses, and minor creases in margins; minor creases and abrasions in image.
A sallow-faced woman in a red dress sways to the music of a red-lipped jazz band, while a gleeful green monster (the spectre of cocaine) watches over the hill of Montmartre, and Moulin Rouge at his elbow. Although little is known about this play, the image does not appear to be a glorification of the drug, which was legal in Paris throughout the 1920s. The clear resemblance of the characters pictured to Edith Piaf, Harpo Marx and Al Jolson further suggest that this play, whether a morality tale or not, was celebrity-based.
