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MAX RÉE.
Three proposed New Yorker covers. One
finished in watercolor and ink; one partly
finished with The NewYorker logo penned
in; and one partly colored, without lettering.
Each approximately 267x368 mm; 10
1
/
2
x14
1
/
2
inches. Only one is signed, lower right.
[400/600]
Rée (1889-1953) was a Danish-born costume
designer. He worked as a stage designer for Max
Reinhardt in the early 1920s before moving to the
U.S. as a costume designer for MGM in Hollywood,
creating Greta Garbo’s wardrobe forTorrent andThe
Temptress, her first two American films. He then
moved to NewYork as set and costume designer for
such classic Broadway productions as Earl Carroll’s
Vanities, GreenwichVillage Follies, and Music Box
Revue.While in NewYork City, he designed several
covers forThe NewYorker (4 of which were published
in 1925).He returned to Hollywood two years later
and, in 1931, won an Academy Award for Best Art
Direction for Cimarron.