Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951)
Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951)

Polo Players on Horseback

Details
Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951)
Polo Players on Horseback
signed with initials in monogram 'JCLeyendecker' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23 ½ x 20 ¾ in. (59.7 x 52.7 cm.)
Painted in 1914.
Provenance
Private collection, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1940s.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
Styles for Men: The House of Kuppenheimer, Spring and Summer 1914, cover illustration.

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Lot Essay

The present work was published as the cover illustration for the Spring and Summer 1914 issue of Styles for Men, The House of Kuppenheimer. The House of Kuppenheimer was a branch of B. Kuppenheimer & Co, a men's clothing company which regularly ran advertisements created by J.C. Leyendecker in The Saturday Evening Post.

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