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| Three Under The Mistletoe |
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| Artist: | Anne Sefton Fish |
| Date: | 1921 |
| Medium: | Gouache on Illustration Board |
| Dimensions: | Sight Size 10 1/2" X 14" Framed 22 1/2" X 27 1/4" |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Original Use: | Cover For Vanity Fair Magazine December 1921 |
| Price: | $7500.00 |
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| Above: Detail of gouache |
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| Above: Vanity Fair December 1921 (included in sale) |
A scarce and wonderful original gouache painting on illustration board by Anne Harriet Sefton a.k.a. Fish; this was the cover for The December 1921 Christmas edition of Vanity Fair Magazine. Work is in the humorous yet refined swinging youth style that came to personify the art deco Jazz Age. Painting is elaborately framed in a hand carved ornate antique wood frame and comes with a bound volume of 1921 Vanity Fair Magazines which includes the complete December 1921 volume. Work is unsigned but the title page of the included magazine lists the cover design by "Fish".
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| Above: Framed and matted in fine carved antique wood frame |
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| Above: Frame detail |
Anne Sefton was a prolific and gifted painter that shared a like minded spirit and sense of humor with contemporary cover illustrator and artist John Held Jr. Both artist's playfully poked fun at the modernist entanglements and pratfalls that the Roaring 20's bestowed upon it's self centered yet life loving participants. Sefton was able to capture the era in a uniquely modern and playfully stylish manner. This work has a subtle Christmas spirited mistletoe placement which is fitting as it was The December 1921 commission for this prestigious Conde Nast publications.
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| Above: Detail |
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| Above: verso view |
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| Above: View with bound volume of Vanity Fair 1921 |
Anne Harriet Fish (Sefton) was born in Bristol, England. She worked in oil, watercolor and gouache and was an illustrator who was active in London, Sussex and St. Ives, Cornwall. She married Walter Sefton in 1918. In New York City, she did illustrations for "Vanity Fair" and "Vogue" including the cover for "Vanity Fair" in April, 1917.
Around the time of the First World War porcelain doll heads were no longer available from Germany, and so Fulper Pottery makers of Flemington, New Jersey, among others, made some. This was a new clay body for them as their regular line of pottery was made from stoneware clay.
Cast iron figural flapper girl doorstops bearing the artists cartoonish flapper girl creations were also produced and sold during the 1920s.
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