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C1898
Le Journal des Ventes
Artist:
Georges de Feure, Le Journal des Ventes, c.19th colour lithographed poster issued in Les Maîtres de l’Affiche, Paris. The poster advertises the Journal des Ventes (Journal of the Auctions). The composition presents an elegantly attired female figure enveloped in a … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Le Journal des Ventes
Date:
C1898
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph printed in colour.
Image Size:
225mm
x 330mm
Paper Size:
285mm
x 391mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1898
Description:
Georges de Feure, Le Journal des Ventes, c.19th colour lithographed poster issued in Les Maîtres de l’Affiche, Paris.
The poster advertises the Journal des Ventes (Journal of the Auctions).
The composition presents an elegantly attired female figure enveloped in a richly harmonised tonal scheme. De Feure restricts his palette largely to brown, green, and subdued pink in the roses, yet achieves a remarkable range of tonal variation and depth. As noted by Abdy, it is “De Feure’s finest poster, and one of the most beautiful of the whole period… a triumph of colour and design… He uses only brown, green and dull pink in the roses. Yet every possible shade of brown is in the poster, and the effect is a great richness and concentration of colour, like a mountain of brushed up autumn leafs… [She] is dressed in the height of imaginative fashion, and her hat is a victory of the milliner’s art” (Abdy, p.156).
The poster was immediately recognised by contemporary critics for its refinement and decorative unity. Rennert records that it “was immediately seized upon by contemporary critics and hailed as one of the finest works of its kind” (Rennert, PAI-XXVIII, 306). The elongated figure, flowing contours, and integration of typography exemplify the mature Art Nouveau style associated with de Feure and the international poster movement of the 1890s.
References:
Abdy, J. The French Poster: Cheret to Cappiello. London 1969: 156.
Rennert, J. Master of the Posters 1896 - 1900. New York 1977 :: PAI-XXVIII, 306.
Abdy, J. The French Poster: Cheret to Cappiello. London 1969: 156.
Rennert, J. Master of the Posters 1896 - 1900. New York 1977 :: PAI-XXVIII, 306.
Georges De Feure (1868 - 1943)
(real name Georges Joseph van Sluijters) was a French painter, theatrical designer, and industrial art designer. De Feure was born in Paris. His father was a successful Dutch architect. In 1886, de Feure was one of the eleven students admitted at the Rijkscademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, which he did however leave very quickly for Paris since he felt that formal academic training had nothing to offer him. Being of very independent nature, de Feure never again took up formal artistic studies, and forged his own independent path. He was however influenced by Jules Cheret in his posters for the cafe concert but most likely was never his pupil and became the key designer of Siegfried Bing for L'Art Nouveau. He exhibited in the Exposition Universelle de Paris exhibition in 1900. He designed furniture, worked for newspapers, created theater designs for Le Chat Noir cabaret and posters.
