Poster Art from Toulouse-Lautrec to Mucha Scales the Heights

Result EUR48,640

Published on 08 June 2022, by Christophe Provot

Auction on 23 May 2022 - 14:00 (CEST) - 3, rue Favart - 75002 Paris

Over 350 posters from the late 19th and the very early 20th century relived their finest hours, led by Mucha, Villon, Klimt and Toulouse-Lautrec.

Manuel Orazi (1860-1934), La Maison modern (The Modern House), 1900, canvas-mounted... Poster Art from Toulouse-Lautrec to Mucha Scales the Heights

Manuel Orazi (1860-1934), La Maison modern (The Modern House), 1900, canvas-mounted chromolithograph, printed by J. Minot, 81 x 116.5 cm/31.9 x 45.9 in.
Result: €48,640

It is an understatement to say that the sale was a success. But you can judge for yourself: it totaled €1,453,824 over two days. This was decisive recognition of the taste of Michel Romand (1929-2013), an informed collector whose watchword was "perfection". Poster art, which was somewhat stagnating in the 1950s when he opened the Documents Gallery at 53 rue de Seine in Paris, was certainly a family affair. His great-grandfather Edmond Sagot had opened his own gallery in 1890 and launched the poster collection trend. It was only in the 1960s that posters took on a new lease of life with the craze for Art Nouveau. In 1975, Michel Romand acquired the poster collection of Charles-Joseph…

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