The Maitre de l''affiche posters were a collection sent to poster aficionados and subscribers just before the turn of the last century (roughly 1896-1900). THIS IS AN ORIGINAL POSTER AND NOT A REPRODUCTION. IT IS PART OF THE COLLECTION OF THE MAITRE DE L''AFFICHE AND IS EMBOSSED WITH THE SEAL OF THE MAITRE. By the 1890s the streets of every great metropolis were enlivened by large colourful posters . The poster had not only caught the fancy of the broad public, but its best examples were already being regarded as works of art (specifically, as fine prints) to be exhibited, reviewed in journals, collected and reprinted in a manageable form. In the last five years of the century, the Imprimerie Chaix was to play great part in codifying, hallowing and perpetuating the ebullient period of ''La Belle Epoque.'' It was in those years that the firm published ''Les Maitres de l''Affiche'' (Masters of the Poster) reduced lithographic versions, in authentic colours, of the best posters of Europe and America, by more than 90 great artists, posters that bring the period to life.'' Appelbaum WE ARE HAPPY TO SHIP WORLDWIDE AND/OR TO SEND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR PHOTOS. Artist: Dudley Hardy English (1866-1922) Plate: PL. 216 Title: To Day Description: Condition A. Original lithograph from ''Les Maitre de L''Affiches'' series. Printed by Imprimerie Chaix, Paris, 1900. Maitre Sheet Size: 11 3/8 in x 15 3/4 in, Framed size 13 x 16 inches ''Dudley Hardy put on the walls of London for the magazine To-day, a yellow girl with sober contours, even a little angular, the effect achieved and on the white paper the figure standing out radiantly, to the detriment of chromos overloaded with colours in half tones. The yellow girl like the Gaiety Girl (see PL.4) which preceded her, was directly inspired by Cheret: She was too light-hearted, too irresponsible to be a girl of this grey skied rainy country. But she adapted very well, with rawer colours and less subtle outline than used by the French artists. Hardy soon became the fashionable poster maker...''(Weill p.67, 68) ''The prolific English artist Dudley Hardy...really introduced the colour poster to England... His posters are strongly derivative of Cheret''s. Like Cheret he appreciated the advertising value of sex appeal, and his recurring subjects are legs, tutu''s, frou-frous and legs again. The range of expression and antic is between a frisky insouciance and a brassier glamour'' (Rennert, PAI-XXIX, 397) Status: For Sale Reference#: HUF10 Condition: A Year: 1899 Country: France Maker: Chaix Height: 16 in. (40.64 cm) Width: 13 in. (33.02 cm) Title: Dudley Hardy/Maitre de L''affiche/ Today Style: Art Nouveau Materials: paper, framed

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