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C1896
Le Courrier Francais.
Artist:
Jules Cheret (1836 - 1932)
"The Courrier Francais series: This lively 12-page weekly magazine started in 1894 followed the activities of the poster world very closely. A black and white journal, measuring 11 3/8 x 16 inches, it championed the work of many posterists Willette, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Le Courrier Francais.
Date:
C1896
Artist:
Jules Cheret (1836 - 1932)
Engraver:
Imprimerie Chaix
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Original colour lithograph.
Image Size:
230mm
x 320mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1896
Description:
"The Courrier Francais series: This lively 12-page weekly magazine started in 1894 followed the activities of the poster world very closely. A black and white journal, measuring 11 3/8 x 16 inches, it championed the work of many posterists Willette, Forain, Rassenfosse and, most of all Cheret. Almost every week about 35 Cheret posters were listed for sale. Often a new Cheret poster would be announced with a full-page reproduction. The full-colour supplements by Cheret were inserted inside subscribers’ copies of the Courrier Francais were folded into it…(Rennert, PAI-XXIII, 200)
Biography:
Jules Cheret (1836-1932)
French painter and lithographer who became known as a master of Belle Époque poster art and is recognised as the ‘father of the modern poster.’
Born in Paris to a poor but creative family of artisans. At the of age thirteen, he began a three-year apprenticeship with a lithographer and then his interest in painting led him to take an art course at the Ecole Nationale de Dessin. From 1859 to 1866, he trained in lithography in London and on returning to France, created vivid poster ads for the cabarets, music halls, and theatres such as the Eldorado, the Olympia, the Folies Bergere, Theatre de l’Opera, the Alcazar d’Ete and the Moulin Rouge.
In 1895, Cheret created the series Maitres de l’Affiche, a collection of reduced posters of ninety-seven Parisian artists. This series was pivotal in the reassessment of posters being seen as merely advertising works but viewed for the first time as works of art. His success inspired an industry that saw the emergence of a new generation of poster designers and painters such as Charles Gesmar and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
