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Maxfield Parrish 1870–1966

The Century / Midsummer Holiday Number

1897 sight: 19¾ h × 13¼ w in (50 × 34 cm)
estimate: $2,000–2,500
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Parrish illustrated many magazines—Scribner’s, Collier’s, Success, Lippincott’s—and every now and then, he executed posters for them, conceived more or less as covers, and of approximately the same size. This design of a woman nakedly lost in thought earned him second prize in The Century poster contest of 1897, as noted at the bottom of the poster.
The Thomas & Wylie Lithographic Co., New York
literature: DFP-I, 317; Margolin, p. 51; Parrish, 30; Femme s’Affiche, 67; Lauder, 134, Pl. 13; PAI-LXXVII, 326

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