Sale 2459 - Rare & Important Travel Posters, October 26, 2017

JEAN DUPAS (1882-1964) 181 c “WHERE IS THIS BOWER BESIDE THE SILVER THAMES?” 1930. 39 3 / 4 x49 1 / 2 inches, 101x125 3 / 4 cm. Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Leeds. Condition B+: mat staining and repaired tears in margins; creases in margins and image; colors attenuated. A visitor to Dupas’ studio once noted a quotation from Voltaire pinned to wall: “Decadence is produced by doing things the easy way and by being lazy about doing them well, by being sated with beauty, and by a taste for the bizarre” (French Art Deco p. 90). Plakat Kunst p. 120, Richmond p. 116. [15,000/20,000]