Page 4 - Swann Galleries - The Trumpet - Winter / Spring 2013

This diverse sale features a section of rare and important Art Nouveau posters that reads like a
who’s who of the artists of that era: Jules Chéret, Eugène Grasset, Privat Livemont, Alphonse Mucha,
PAL, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Highlights include two Mucha
masterworks, the inimitable advertisement for French rolling paper company Job, 1896, and a hand-signed
and numbered variant of Salon des Cent, also1896.
Skiing and winter sports posters are a growing market, and this sale doesn’t disappoint, with a large
selection of images for the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, ski posters by Sascha Maurer and iconic
advertisements for Sun Valley.
There is also a section devoted to Hebraic and Judaic posters with American posters printed inYiddish
during the FirstWorldWar, as well as MatherWork Incentive posters and excellent international posters
from across the political and geographical spectrum.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FINEART FEBRUARY 14
This sale features a significant group of works to be sold by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for
the benefit of the collection, including Meeting Place, 1941, the first of Norman Lewis’s WPA-era oil
paintings to come to auction and Charles White’s Trumpet Player, a 1959-1960 charcoal and gouache
drawing. Also from the collection are works by Charles Alston, Richmond Barthé, Beauford Delaney and
Laura Wheeler Waring.
Barkley L. Hendricks’s The Hawk, Blah, Blah, Blah, William T. Williams’s Up Balls and large canvases by Frank
Bowling and Sam Gilliam represent bold, graphic compositions from the latter half of the 20th century.The
sale also includes an exceptional group of scarce prints by Elizabeth Catlett, including the iconic color lino-
leum cut, Sharecropper.
VINTAGE POSTERS
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Dwight Shepler, Sun Valley / Ketchum, Idaho. $10,000 to $15,000.
Norman Lewis, Meeting Place , oil on canvas, 1941. $150,000 to $200,000.