May 05, 2003 - Sale 1970

Sale 1970 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
TEINTURERIE DU POINT NOIR. 1934.
55x391/4 inches. Joseph-Charles, Paris.
Condition B+: repaired tear in bottom margin; vertical and horizontal folds; creases in image.
For this fabric dye company Dupin portrays a study in opposites: an elegant lady from romantic days-gone-by is depicted in monochrome with a stylized, modernistic counterpart depicted in a rainbow of colors. The name of the company is somewhat incongruous with the company's product, but Dupin cleverly integrates the black dot of the company's logo with the image, via a swatch of black, out of which the two figures are emerging.