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Lot 30
Japanese 'Flapper'
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AU$600
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Timed Auction
Sport and Leisure
Size
51.8 x 36.3 cm
Description
Orange Fabric Dye “Sumire-Zome”
c1920s. Colour lithograph, “Bond” watermark in paper, 51.8 x 36.3cm. Slight foxing to image. Linen-backed.
This poster is in the style of Japanese moga or “modern girls”, who followed “Westernised fashions and lifestyles in the 1920s. These moga were Japan’s equivalent of America’s flappers.” Moga were considered to be the “model consumer, someone more often found in advertisements for cosmetics and fashion than in real life.” Ref: Wiki. Item #CL197-9
Condition
Slight foxing to image. Linen-backed.
Medium
Colour lithograph, “Bond” watermark in paper,
Quantity
1
