This artwork is from Les Maitres de L'Affiche series. These miniature versions of outstanding stone lithographs are of the most important advertising posters of the time.
Featured in this print is the common-man attending the bar, with brown tones. Behind the window, you see men at war with rifles & bayonets.
“The contrast between the capital-owning classes with army bayonets behind them and the ordinary people caused widespread bitterness. For the common man the bar-counter became a barricade at which he voiced his dissatisfaction with the situation. In his day Ibel's admirers placed him on a par with Toulouse-Lautrec, perhaps because what one might call his stenographic drawing has much in common with Lautrec. L'Escamouche (the Skirmish) is an interesting specimen of French poster art, which, however, because of the mysterious laws governing placards and posters, was never displayed on the streets but could only appear inside closed rooms, as is expressly stated on this poster”(bottom right) (Paris 1900, p.58)
“Ibels and Lautrec were major contributors to a curiously short-lived publication, L'Escarmouche, which lasted only three months from Nov.1893 to Jan.1894. Yet in this brief period, the magazine drew on what could be termed a million-dollar pool of talent; just look at the contributors” (lower right) (Wine Spectator, 56)
Details
Artists:
Henri-Gabriel (H.G.) Ibels
Origin:
France
Circa:
1896
Printer:
Chaix - Paris
Size:
11.5'' x 15.5''
ID:
#MA006
Style:
Art Nouveau, Belle Epoque
Condition:
Excellent
Linen Backed:
No
Size
Unit
Inches
Centimeters
Width
11.5
29.21
Height
15.5
39.37
Depth
0.1
0.25
Details
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English Vintage Theatrical Poster ‘Patience’, 1930s
Origin:
England, Great Britain, United Kingdom
Artist:
Anonymous
Circa:
1930s
Size:
20'' x 30''

Italian Wine & Spirits Vintage Poster ‘Chianti | Ruffino’, Metlicovitz, 1898, Framed
Origin:
Italy
Artist:
Leopoldo Metlicovitz, Un-Signed
Circa:
1898
Size:
52.75'' x 38.625''

Pierrefonds | Maitre de L’Affiche: Plate #218
Origin:
France
Artist:
Gustave Fraipont
Circa:
1900
Size:
11.5'' x 15.5''
