L’Emprunt de la Paix.
£350.00 GBP • Used
Original colour lithographic poster, 1140 x 790 mm. with minor creasing. Published to promote War Bonds, raising money for the reconstruction of France after World War One, when damage was estimat...
Original colour lithographic poster, 1140 x 790 mm. with minor creasing. Published to promote War Bonds, raising money for the reconstruction of France after World War One, when damage was estimated 125 billion francs. This moving poster depicting a mother, calmly sitting with her children while men work in the background rebuilding, surrounded by the smoking chimneys of factories, encouraging subscription through the vision of getting the country up and running again, in every area. The display of a mother breastfeeding her baby would probably not have been tolerated in a British propaganda poster, but the French were more relaxed. Henri Lebasque [1865 - 1937] was a post impressionist painter associated with Matisse, Rouault, Derain and Dufy. As well as his paintings, he produced decorations for the theatre of the Champs-Elysées and the Transatlantique ocean liner; this is the only poster which I have been able to trace as designed by him.
Product Info
Publisher: Paris: Maquet, [1920]
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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