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Lot 210
Champs Élysées / La Loïe Fuller. 1925.
Sold
$32,500
Est.
$30,000 - $40,000
Live Auction
PAI-XCI: Rare Posters
Live Bidding began Nov 12, 2023 at 11:00 AM EST
ARTIST
PAUL COLIN (1892-1986)
Description
Artist: PAUL COLIN (1892-1986)
Size: 46 1/8 x 61 7/8 in./117.2 x 157 cm
Condition: A-/ Slight tears in bottom text.
Printer: Imp. H. Chachoin, Paris
Reference: Colin, 21; Colin Affichiste, 4; Colin/Magicien, p. 27; Colin/Spectacle, p. 104; PAI-LII, 208
Key Words: Art Deco; Artist: Colin; Cabaret; Dance

Champs Élysées / La Loïe Fuller. 1925.
“Josephine Baker and the Revue Nègre would be a hard act to follow for anyone less noted and less experienced than ‘La Loïe,’ but the dancer who had captivated Paris for over thirty years was still up to the task. When she came to the Champs-Élysées... she was 63 years old. ‘Old, but still very interesting,’ recalls Colin... It was her use of lighting effects and wind machines and other devices, all of which she devised herself in her own laboratory, that turned her appearance into a spectacular, ‘psychedelic’ light-and-motion show... A year later, in 1926, she gave her final performance in London; she died in 1928. And how successfully Colin has caught the swirling rotating motion of the dancer with this circular design. To hold up this poster to the Loïe Fuller designs of Chéret, Lautrec, Orazi and others, is to gain an instant lesson in the history and progress of the poster and to appreciate the fact that Colin ranks with equal stature with these luminaries of the medium” (Colin, p. 7-8). This design is very different from almost all Colin posters in forsaking the figurative and concentrating on form and color.