$6,500
347. Blackstone, Harry. Blackstone. Birth of Fashion. Erie Pennsylvania, Erie Litho., ca. 1930. Horizontal one-sheet (40 x 28”) color lithograph depicting a bust portrait of Blackstone’s at left, with elegantly costumed women he is producing filling out the image. Restoration in image and at borders. B+. Fewer than ten examples known. Scarce. In many ways a partner to Blackstone’s famous “Oriental Nights” poster, the text at the bottom of this poster is equally bombastic, stating: “Opulent pageant of glorious girlhood and most mystifying phantasmagoria ever devised. Even as Venus, goddess of love and beauty, was brought forth from the foam of the sea so does the great Blackstone materialize form the very ether a congress of bewildering femininity such might indeed regale the celestial connoisseurs of pulchritude upon mount Olympus.”
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-10-26
