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C1897
Theatre de L’Opera Samedi 30 Janvier 1er. Grand val Masque
Artist:
Wonderful c.19th French poster by Jules Cheret (1836-1932) for the Theatre de l’Opera. Cheret made a number of posters for this theatre between 1892 and 1897, the design features a profiled woman in a billowing dress looking out over her … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Theatre de L’Opera Samedi 30 Janvier 1er. Grand val Masque
Date:
C1897
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph printed in colour.
Image Size:
230mm
x 315mm
Paper Size:
290mm
x 398mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1897
Description:
Wonderful c.19th French poster by Jules Cheret (1836-1932) for the Theatre de l’Opera.
Cheret made a number of posters for this theatre between 1892 and 1897, the design features a profiled woman in a billowing dress looking out over her shoulder as a … figure and other revellers dance around her. Cheret would do a single design each winter and it would be repeated with varying text throughout the season… Cheret, reworking the same visual ingredients always keeps us interested. “Cheret’s earliest known poster, dated 1858, is for the theatre, and from there he went on to prepare some 500 posters for various theatres, cabarets, music-halls, individual performers and shows of every description. The Folies-Bergere was one of his frequent clients for three decades (60 posters) and so were the Alcazar, the Ambassadeurs, the Moulin Rouge, the Hippodrome and the Musee Grevin. Some of his happiest and most popular designs are in this category. He could exercise his uncanny ability to capture the dynamics of the stage in the movement of dancers, mimes and acrobats”
Juels Cheret (1836 - 1932)
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.
