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Live auction - Lot 348
Live auction - Lot 348
[Poster]
Bec Auer.
Brussels, J.L. Goffart, 1896
Hammer price: €
800
€ 300 / 400
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
Chromolithograph, 112,0 x 80,5 cm, stone signed and dated (creases, pinholes on edges, sm. retouchings by hand, sm. tears, trimmed on framing line, paper strips added on edges).
Linen backed.
Advertisement for the gas burner Auer, then in competition with electric lighting. The typically Art Nouveau composition merges the female subject with the product, where she herself becomes a living candelabra.
Ref. Schoonbroodt (2003), p. 35. - Id. (2007), p. 95.
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