"Lac De Come" (Lake Como), fur coats by Max-A. Leroy, color stencil (pochoir) by George Barbier. Art Nouveau. From the "Gazette du Bon Ton" (Paris, 1924) no.10, plate 54. The Marian Angell Boyer and Francis Boyer Library of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Copyright Philadelphia Museum of Art. Limited Edition 1997. Printed in Canada.

Art poster on high quality heavy paper. Entire plate is 11" x 14" [280mm x 355mm]; the design is 8.7/8" x 11" [226mm x 280mm]; fine condition.

George Barbier (1882-1932) was one of the great French illustrators of the early 20th century. Barbier was 29 years old when he mounted his first exhibition in 1911 and was subsequently swept to the forefront of his profession with commissions to design theater and ballet costumes, to illustrate books, and to produce haute couture fashion illustrations. For the next 20 years Barbier led a group from the Ecole des Beaux Arts who were nicknamed by Vogue "The Knights of the Bracelet"- a tribute to their fashionable and flamboyant mannerisms and style of dress. Included in this elite circle were Bernard Boutet de Monvel and Pierre Brissaud (both of whom were Barbier's first cousins), Paul Iribe, Georges Lepape, and Charles Martin. During his career Barbier also turned his hand to jewelry, glass and wallpaper design, wrote essays and many articles for the prestigious Gazette du bon ton. In the mid-1920s he worked with Erte to design sets and costumes for the Folies Bergere and in 1929 he wrote the introduction for Erte's acclaimed exhibition and achieved mainstream popularity through his regular appearances in L'Illustration magazine.

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