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Lot Description

Jules Chéret

(French, 1836 - 1932)

Musée Grévin

, 1892

lithograph

45 1/2 x 32 inches.

Property from Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California. Sold to Support the Care of Collections and the Mary Silver Fund for Acquisitions

Literature:
Broido 471

Provenance:

Mary and Louis Silver French Art Poster Collection

Bequest of Mary Silver, Palm Springs, California

Lot Notes:
Final proofs of this poster included lettering. There are two versions: one announced the performance of John Hewelt's puppet show, Les Fantoches, and the other announced a Fête des artists. Both shows were at the wax museum Musée Grévin. In this poster the curtsying "Chérette" invites passersby to an "optical theater of luminous pantomimes," part of a new entertainment invented by the science teacher Émile Reynaud. His innovation featured a primitive projector that cast images from colored celluloid onto a sheet and is said to have foreshadowed the invention of moving pictures.
Special Chéret touches in this work are the lively Pierrots and harlequins and the delicate overlays of color.

Condition Report

Framed: 64 x 49 1/2 inches.
Not examined out of frame, appears to be linen backed, waving to sheet, repaired tears to lower left. Please request additional images.

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