Title: RARE & IMPORTANT ART NOUVEAU POSTERS
Date: December 16, 2009
Time: 1:30 PM
Exhibition: Sat., December 12, 10-4
Mon., December 14, 10-6
Tues., December 15, 10-6
Wed., December 16, 10-noon
Contact Person: Nicholas Lowry
nlowry@swanngalleries.com

Swann Galleries’ annual auction of Rare & Important Art Nouveau Posters on Wednesday, December 16, 2009, offered 158 lovely fin-de-siècle images from Europe and the United States including works by well-known, unfamiliar, and anonymous designers.

Highlights included:

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Troupe de Mlle Églantine, 1896, which sold for $26,400 (first illustration).

Roger Jourdain's Aérodome de Vichy, Paris, 1909, which sold for $12,000, a record for the artist at auction (second illustration).

Alphonse Mucha Lefèvre-Utile / Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, 1904, which sold for a record $7,800 (third illustration).

Jules Chéret's Palais de Glace, from Courrier Français supplement, Paris, March 1, 1896, which sold for a record $5,760 (fourth illustration).

Evelyn Rumsey Cary’s Woman Suffrage, circa 1905, which sold for $5,760 (fifth illustration).