Lot 105: ANGE SUPPARO (1870- ) TOURNEE DU THEATRE DE LA RENAISSANCE / MONTMARTRE.

Est: $4,000 USD - $6,000 USDSold:

Swann Auction GalleriesNew York, NY, USOctober 09, 2002

Item Overview

Description

62 1/2x45 1/2 inches. Publicite Wall, Paris.
Condition B+: restoration and restored losses in corners and margins; top margn and right margin trimmed; unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds.
To our knowledge, this is the first copy of this poster ever to have surfaced. It is advertising the travelling show from the Theatre de la Renaisance, for the production of a comedy about the gay Montmartre of the 1890's. The playwright, Pierre Frondaie, was a popular French writer who would become famous thanks to a best seller of the 1920's "L'Homme a I'Hispano" (The Man With the Hispano Suiza). Ange Supparo, who never designed another poster, despite this spectacular image, was an Official Painter of the Colonies (as appointed by the French Government), and was the founder of the Art College of Tannanarive, in Madagascar. The image is replete with all the evocative elements of the crazy and exciting Montmartre life of the 1890's: the landmark Moulin Rouge and Moulin de la Galette, an old top-hatted bourgeois carrying a winsome dancing girl on his shoulder and, lurking behind them, an unscrupulous man smoking a cigarette. A great image that captures all the nostalgia that Montmartre already held for the public and further cemented the licentious, historic and seedy reputation of the neighborhood for generations to come.

Artist or Maker

Ange Jacques Supparo

Auction Details

ART NOUVEAU POSTERS

Swann Auction Galleries

October 09, 2002, 12:00 AM EST

104 East 25th Street, New York, NY, 10010, US

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