Date: 1915
Size: 32" x 47" (81 x 120 cm)
Condition: A, newly linenbacked, small restorations in margins.
Artist: Alexandre Theophile Steinlen (1859-1923). Steinlen was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and move to the Montmartre neighborhood in Paris in the 1880s where he fell in with the artistic crowd at the popular le Chat Noir. Steinlen created posters on commission for the owner, Aristide Bruant, including the famous “Le Chat Noir”.
Description: Excellent 101-year-old and well known poster for the “Day of the Soldier”, known in French as Poilu (Hairy). Printer Devambez imp. Paris, written in margins.
Size: 32" x 47" (81 x 120 cm)
Condition: A, newly linenbacked, small restorations in margins.
Artist: Alexandre Theophile Steinlen (1859-1923). Steinlen was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and move to the Montmartre neighborhood in Paris in the 1880s where he fell in with the artistic crowd at the popular le Chat Noir. Steinlen created posters on commission for the owner, Aristide Bruant, including the famous “Le Chat Noir”.
Description: Excellent 101-year-old and well known poster for the “Day of the Soldier”, known in French as Poilu (Hairy). Printer Devambez imp. Paris, written in margins.