LEONETTO CAPPIELLO
FOLIES-BERGERE, CIRCA 1900
$5,800.00
Artist
Cappiello, Leonetto
Title
Folies-Bergere
Year of Realization
1900
Origin Country
France
Medium
Stone Lithograph
Imprinter/Manufacturer
Imp. Chaix - Paris
Dimensions
50 1/2 x 36 1/4
Folies-Bergere: A poster produced by Leonetto Cappiello very early in his career (presumably his second poster) rendered in the artist's early caricature style. This piece was intended to entice visitors to the 1900 Paris World's Fair to attend the Folies. There were only 100 of these posters produced without lettering. A 1900 sales advertisement for the edition (which sold for 10 francs each) proclaimed "...with Cappiello, the poster has become an object of decorative art and the first step towards an art which will become, in the near future, the public's taste."
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