CHICAGO, IL.- Leslie Hindman Auctioneers announced the upcoming auction of an outstanding collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century vintage posters from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia that will take place on Tuesday, June 23, 2015. The collection comes from Mr. Herbert M. ³Tippen² Davidson Jr.¹s Collection of The Daytona Beach News-Journal, acquired by Cox Communications and then gifted to the High Museum. The lots to be sold will benefit the museum¹s Acquisitions Fund. The sale offers an impressive array of genre and period posters with over 300 historically relevant and stylistically striking lots.
Among the multitude of posters from the period between 1880 and 1905, the collection has a unique and keen selection of the morning and evening journals and newspapers that were largely produced during France¹s Third Republic. Notable posters include Louis Charles Bombled¹s Le Radical publie Les Misérables par Victor Hugo($500/$700) and Jules Chéret¹s Le Radical, La Closerie des Genets ($600/$800). Other highlights include Alfred Choubrac¹s 1898 Le Petit Bleu ($800/$1,200) and Georges Dorival¹s 1910 La Cote ($500/$700).
The sale will also offer magnificent examples of Art Nouveau posters including Emile Bertrand¹s 1899 lithograph for the Théâtre National de l¹Opéra-Comique: Cendrillon Conte de Fées ($800/$1,200), which publicizes the production of Henri Cain¹s fairytale Cendrillon and composer Jules Massenet. Others include Henri Privat-Livemont¹s La Reforme Publiera le 5 Septembre L¹orgueil d¹une mère, 1896 ($800/$1,200) and J. Leonce Burret¹s Lire Le Chat Noir , 1897 ($800/$1,200).
Also striking are posters by American artists, such as George Reiter Brill¹s Philadelphia Sunday Press ($400/$600), Louis John Rhead¹s vibrant New York Herald, Sunday, March 22, 1896 ($800/$1,200) and Jean Carlu¹s Top People Read the Times Wherever They Go, circa 1940 ($500/$700). Wonderful representations of Tomi Ungerer¹s work as an artist will also be offered, including a run of his whimsically illustrated posters for The Village Voice that ran as an advertisement campaign in the 1960s.
Additional auction highlights include Adolphe Mouron Cassandre¹s illustration from 1937, Project for a Newspaper Poster ($600/$800) that reflects his constant correspondence with his surrealist and objective peers and a selection of propagandistic posters from the Soviet era, such as Grain Harvest, 1938 ($200 to $400), promulgating Alexey Stakhanov, a Soviet Union miner and hero of Socialist Labor. Leslie Hindman Auctioneers is pleased to offer a selection that extends far beyond a single style; the multitude of genres and periods in which the posters have been produced will serve to a wide range of connoisseurs.
