Louis Galice

1893 Original poster by Louis Galice for the Bois de Boulogne flower festival

1893

Choubrac is one of the pioneers of poster art in France. In 1884, when Maindron published his first article on posters, he listed only nine active poster artists known to him, and in...

Eugène Grasset’s medieval-inspired Art Nouveau poster, commissioned by Sarah Bernhardt to promote her 1894 role as Joan of Arc in Jules Barbier’s Jeanne d'Arc. Grasset portrays Bernhardt in the spirit of her historic role: standing bravely with a flowing flag embellished with fleur-de-lis amidst an onslaught of arrows and spears. This antique lithograph is the only color small-format edition of the original poster design, from an extremely rare folio published in conjunction with a landmark exhibition of poster design in St. Petersburg in 1897. This poster design for Jeanne d’Arc is especially important as being the collaboration that led Sarah Bernhardt to discover Alphonse Mucha, as she wanted a new artist...

Beautiful poster of the beginning of the XIXth century by Dudley Hardy : An Artist's Model - George Edwardes company Dudley Hardy (1867 - 1922) was an English painter and illustrator. His interest in illustration led him to produce posters of French graphic influence, including the Yellow Girl...

The girl who has entered the theatrical profession as a child can be depended upon to lead a clean life when she grows up. She is far, far safer than the girl who enters the profession after childhood.' So wrote John Tiller, whose theatrical school produced the dancing ladies who starred in the original 'Pony Ballet' and whose troupes of 'Tiller Girls' were in great demand for shows not only in London but in Paris, Amsterdam, Turin, and New York. He and Mrs. Tiller began training youngsters at the age of nine. In the schools in London and Manchester, the girls had regular academic studies as well as dancing and were placed in Christmas pantomimes when still children. When they grew up, they were given jobs in various Tiller troupes (each managed by a mature woman who watched out for them)... [This lithograph]... was intended for all of the Tiller Troupe performances. The black type at the bottom was surprinted later to indicate, in this instance, their appearance at the Palais de Glace...

Osmar Schindler, (German 1867-1927), Internationale Kunst Ausstellung, Dresden, 1897 Lithograph, signed (in the plate) (middle right), 96cm x 75cm (100...

La composition de cette lithographie représente 3 roses vues en gros plan sur un fond de paysage bucolique, mêlant un parterre de fleurs blanches et, au second plan, quelques silhoue...

Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939) Lorenzaccio Theatre De La Renaissance. Printed: 1896 Printed By: F. Champenois, Paris Signed in plate; Mucha, F. Champenois, Paris Lithograph paper ...

Cirage Jacquot et Cie is an 1886 chromolithograph of Lucien Lefèvre's delightful poster, printed at Imprimerie Chaix under the direction Ernest Maindron...