Picture Posters: A Short History of the Illustrated Placard with Many Reproductions of the Most Artistic Examples in all CountriesHiatt, Charles
History
Picture Posters: A Short History of the Illustrated Placard with Many Reproductions of the Most Artistic Examples in all Countries
Hiatt, Charles
Posters -- History
For example, I may instance such able work as Gruen's "Le Carillon:
cabaret artistique." Few posters are more vivid or more actual than
this. The price of it is a matter of pence, and it should certainly not
be neglected by those whom it amuses to collect the _affiche illustre_.
Gruen, in addition to "Le Carillon," has produced "Poleon-Revue:
Decadent's Concert," and in addition a design for an insurance company.
One of the most charming of the more recent French posters is one by H.
Gray, dealing with "La Pretentaine," a play produced some time ago at
the Nouveau Theatre. In addition he has advertised "La Bonita" at
the Cirque d'Ete, "Les Mousquetaires," at the same place, "Les
Saltimbanques" at the Cirque d'Hiver, and the _bal masque_ at
the Theatre de l'Opera. The last is perhaps the best known of his
_affiches_. Among others, Bac has done a poster for Yvette Guilbert at
the Horloge, which is signed and dated 1892. The bicycling craze has
called into existence a perfect torrent of posters, and Bac, together
with Gray, Guillaume, Lunel, and Paleologue, have produced posters of
more or less interest. A gentleman who is sufficiently modest not
to state his name, did a design which called forth the wrath of the
authorities. Whereupon an artist called Lepur designed an _affiche_
bearing the significant legend, of which this is a translation: "Grand
choice of vine-leaves (fig-leaves) of all sizes for posters, as demanded
by the virtuous journals, the 'T(emps '), the 'G(aulois '), and the
'D(ebats ')."
The following is a list, with the names of typical examples of their
work, of some other French artists of distinction who have designed
posters: Barbizet ("La branche cassee"), Bouisset (F.) ("Bazar de
l'Hotel-de-Ville," "Exposition de jouets," "Chocolat Menier"),
Desicy (H.) ("Un heritage, roman"), Dutriac ("Ambassadeurs: Danseuses
Espagnols"), Faria ("Ba-ta-clan: [Illustration: 0189] Paulus"), Dufay
("Portrait,") ("Les Rey Nol's)," Galice (G.) ("Concert parisien: Esther
Lekain," "Fete des Fleurs," "Paulan Brebion," "Scala: Jeanne Bloch"),
Guydo ("Eldorado: Aimee Eymard"), Honer ("Concert parisien: Bonnaire"),
Hope ("Gaiete: Tour de Nesle"), Huvey ("Gras-side"), Lamy (L.) ("Le
capitaine Henriot, opera comique," "Theatre national lyrique"), Lebegue
(L.) ("Bals travestes et tableaux vivants"), Lefevre (L.) ("Cacao
lacte," "Electricine," "L'hiver a Nice"), Levy (E.) ("Chatelet Michel
Strogoff," "Cirque d'Hiver: Caravane dans le desert," "Folies Bergere:
Vue de la salle," "Petit national: Le prince Mouffetard"), Meunier (G.)
("Papier a cigarettes Job," "Parfumerie Edea," "Le Sahara a Paris: Champ
de Mars"), Truchet (A.) ("Cabaret des Quat'z' Arts," "Eldorado: Alice
Berthier.")
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