20th Century Prints

Original color print heightened in gold, printed on laid paper, signed at bottom left of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "address bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of the world and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités." Georges Charensol reports the editor-in-chief's words: "In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success is immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brings together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who are George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly come to join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, unknown for the most part when Lucien Vogel calls upon them, will subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. It is these same illustrators who create the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the period: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provide exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demand and plastic unity, it brings together for the first time the great talents of the world of arts, letters and fashion and imposes, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and bold, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton will largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print heightened with gold, printed on laid paper, signed at the bottom left of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists at the height of the Art Deco movement.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2,000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "were aimed at bibliophiles and sophisticated aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted with gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) La Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "In 1910, he observed, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, no. 133, May 1925). The success of the magazine was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brought together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly came to join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators create the drawings for La Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the period: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton was a decisive step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic excellence and visual unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, printed on laid paper, signed at the bottom left of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full flowering of Art Deco.
This famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "address bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on beautiful laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are made using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decided to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The success of the magazine was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel therefore brought together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly came to join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents of the world of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, printed on laid paper, signed at the bottom left of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full flowering of Art Deco.
This famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "address bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on beautiful laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are made using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decided to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The success of the magazine was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel therefore brought together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly came to join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents of the world of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, printed on laid paper, signed at bottom left of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and fashionable aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they used a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and for some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observed, there was no truly artistic fashion journal representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel therefore brought together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, unknown for the most part when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the period: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents of the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "petit journal mourant" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, printed on laid paper, signed at bottom right of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and fashionable aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they used a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and for some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observed, there was no truly artistic fashion journal representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel therefore brought together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, unknown for the most part when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the period: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents of the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "petit journal mourant" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print heightened with palladium on laid paper, signed at upper left of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "address bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metallic pochoir technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of the world and of fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités" ["Art, fashions and frivolities"]. Georges Charensol reports the editor-in-chief's words: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of creating a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel therefore assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, unknown for the most part when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the era: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the idea that the illustrator had of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton represents a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic requirements and visual unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of art, literature and fashion and established, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print on laid paper, signed at lower right of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "address bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metallic pochoir technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of the world and of fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités" ["Art, fashions and frivolities"]. Georges Charensol reports the editor-in-chief's words: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of creating a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel therefore assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, unknown for the most part when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the era: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the idea that the illustrator had of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton represents a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic requirements and visual unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of art, literature and fashion and established, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print heightened with gold, printed on laid paper, signed at bottom right of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full bloom of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and for some highlighted with gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of the world and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I therefore thought of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success is immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brings together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who are George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly come to join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel calls upon them, will subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators create the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the era: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provide exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the idea that the illustrator has of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in fashion history. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brings together for the first time the great talents of the world of arts, letters and fashion and imposes, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton will largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "small dying journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original double color print heightened with gold, printed on laid paper, signed at bottom left of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full bloom of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and for some highlighted with gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of the world and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I therefore thought of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success is immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brings together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who are George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly come to join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel calls upon them, will subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators create the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the era: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provide exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the idea that the illustrator has of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in fashion history. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brings together for the first time the great talents of the world of arts, letters and fashion and imposes, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton will largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "small dying journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, printed on laid paper, signed lower right on the plate.
Original engraving created to illustrate La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "were addressed to bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they used a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, later adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints were created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some emphasized with gold or palladium.
The adventure began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decided to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the editor-in-chief's words: "In 1910, he observed, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel therefore assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, and Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the period: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the idea that the illustrator had of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton was a decisive step in fashion history. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents of the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print heightened with gold, printed on laid paper, signed lower left on the plate.
Original engraving created to illustrate La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "were addressed to bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they used a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, later adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints were created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some emphasized with gold or palladium.
The adventure began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decided to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the editor-in-chief's words: "In 1910, he observed, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel therefore assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, and Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the period: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the idea that the illustrator had of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton was a decisive step in fashion history. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents of the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print heightened with gold on laid paper, signed at the bottom right of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is notably illustrated with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "s'adressent aux bibliophiles et aux mondains esthètes" ["address themselves to bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes"] (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of the world and of fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités" ["Art, fashion and frivolities"]. Georges Charensol reports the editor-in-chief's words: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observes, there was no truly artistic fashion journal representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success is immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Initially, Vogel brings together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who are George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel calls upon them, will subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators create the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the period: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provide exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brings together for the first time the great talents of the world of arts, letters and fashion and establishes, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton will largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "petit journal mourant" ["dying little journal"] that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print on laid paper, signed at the bottom right of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is notably illustrated with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "s'adressent aux bibliophiles et aux mondains esthètes" ["address themselves to bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes"] (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of the world and of fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités" ["Art, fashion and frivolities"]. Georges Charensol reports the editor-in-chief's words: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observes, there was no truly artistic fashion journal representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success is immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Initially, Vogel brings together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who are George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel calls upon them, will subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators create the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the period: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provide exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brings together for the first time the great talents of the world of arts, letters and fashion and establishes, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton will largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "petit journal mourant" ["dying little journal"] that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, printed on laid paper, signed in the bottom right of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the height of the Art Deco boom.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models from great couturiers. Upon their publication, these luxurious publications "were addressed to bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they used a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints were created using the metallic stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of the world and of fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decided to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observed, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I therefore thought of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The success of the magazine was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brought together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly came to join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, unknown for the most part when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlighted and sublimated the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the idea that the illustrator had of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton was a decisive step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demand and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents of the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "little dying journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print heightened in gold, printed on laid paper, signed lower left on the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "address bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin typeface, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are made using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of the world and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "In 1910, he observes, there existed no truly artistic fashion journal representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of creating a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success is immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brings together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who are George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel calls upon them, will subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators create the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the era: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provide exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the idea that the illustrator has of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brings together for the first time the great talents of the world of arts, letters and fashion and imposes, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original double color print heightened in gold, printed on laid paper, signed lower left on the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "address bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin typeface, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are made using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of the world and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "In 1910, he observes, there existed no truly artistic fashion journal representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of creating a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success is immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brings together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who are George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel calls upon them, will subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators create the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the era: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provide exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the idea that the illustrator has of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brings together for the first time the great talents of the world of arts, letters and fashion and imposes, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print heightened with gold, printed on laid paper, signed at bottom left of the plate.
Original engraving created to illustrate La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists at the height of the Art Deco movement.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is notably illustrated with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they used a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, later adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints were made using the metal stencil technique, enhanced in colors and some highlighted with gold or palladium.
The adventure began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decided to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reported the words of the editor-in-chief: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observed, there was no truly artistic fashion magazine representative of the spirit of its time. I therefore thought of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel brought together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts including George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, and Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlighted and sublimated the dresses of seven creators of the era: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton was a decisive step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents of the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman: slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little magazine" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

New Year's card for 1973 illustrated with a lithograph by Emile Gilioli on the first cover and bearing this signed autograph inscription from the painter to his friend, art critic Georges Raillard, who is not named specifically:
"Bonne année 1973. Bonne santé. Bonne santé ! Babet et Emile Gilioli." ["Happy New Year 1973. Good health. Good health! Babet and Emile Gilioli."]
Small stains affecting mainly the back cover of the New Year's card.

Collection assembled by the artist of 82 lithographs created between 1939 and 1940 after his drawings. All are portraits of the teaching staff of the University of Geneva, in black or lithographic crayon, and bear as caption the name of the model and the author's signature, as well as a date. We may distinguish the portrait of Jean Piaget, which was widely used as an image of the psychologist. The paper usually employed is that used for drawing, and the qualities of the lithography suggest that these are original drawings; it is thought that the author possessed his own press and made his lithographs.
Contemporary full marbled citron sheep binding. Smooth spine, silver title. On the cover, in silver letters: Université de Genève, with the arms below, and at bottom right: Oscar Lazar, 1941. Rubbing and some surface wear. The artist would have his collections of original drawings similarly bound, this binding serving as a personalized binding for Lazar's works.
Inscription: Dédié à Monsieur Albert Lagier. Chêne-Bougerie, le 20.IV. 1942. Lazar. ["Dedicated to Monsieur Albert Lagier. Chêne-Bougerie, 20.IV. 1942. Lazar."] Albert Lagier was then rector of the Academy of Geneva.
Draughtsman and portraitist of Hungarian origin, Oscar Lazar settled in Geneva in 1924. He published several works on Genevan, Swiss and international personalities after his drawings (Rotary, Saint-Moritz, Zurich, League of Nations). The Geneva library possesses original drawings.

Les Immémoriaux – Woodcut drawn, engraved and printed by George-Daniel de Monfreid for the frontispiece of Victor Segalen's novel
Woodcut drawn and engraved by George-Daniel de Monfreid, in black on onion skin paper. Original proof, likely unique. Handwritten Annotation by the artist (“state 5”) in bottom margin, in pencil.
Original print run of a woodcut in black inspired by the work of Gauguin and engraved by George-Daniel de Monfreid for a frontispiece project, remaining unpublished, of Victor Segalen's Les Immémoriaux.
This engraved woodcut was to illustrate, as a frontispiece, the original edition of Segalen's Les Immémoriaux, an ethnographic novel, directly inspired by his trip to Polynesia following in Gauguin's footsteps. Segalen, therefore, asked the painter's follower and closest friend to produce it, to whom he also offered Noa Noa, bought in Papeete during the auction sale of Gauguin's goods. A mutual friendship and admiration was then born between Segalen and Monfreid under the tutelary aegis of the late painter. It is also in constant reference to the Master, that the two friends produce this frontispiece, to which Segalen attached great importance but which he will be obliged to abandon due to publishing costs:
“This is a lot more interesting for me: what will you do for my plate? If I dared to imagine something, it would be a formidable full-face figure, very plain, very worn, and of an androgyne with male tendences; in short, the Maori type described by Gauguin in his Noa Noa and produced by him in the carved wood that remained in Tahiti (face of a woman comparable to that which you possess) and of which I gave you a photograph I believe. [...] Are you in favor of reserving your frontispiece for luxury and friends' copies or of prostituting it in current copies? Allow me to renew a timid desire, expressed at your Vollard exhibition: if you print some more proofs from your color engravings, in pochoir, do not forget me.” (Brest, 2 November 1906).

Monfreid's response, 8 January 1907: “I have started looking for your plate. Ah! I will not describe it to you yet: it does not come according to what your book should evoke. Besides, I am not rich in imagination, let alone in “symbolism”, I remain – as you have noticed – a “naturalist” (but not a “realist”) and to summarize the impression of your Les Immémoriaux, one would have to be Gauguin. Finally, even so, I am not losing hope of doing something; only that I need a little more time to study it...”.
Monfreid will produce two trial woodcuts – whose sizes (22 x 12 cm and 23 x 16 cm) were not adapted to the edition – each time using the same formidable and frustrated figures Segalen wanted. Our woodcut seems to be the final version of these studies, perfectly adapted to the in-12 format of Mercure de France. However, the illustration includes the name of the author at the top, yet Segalen, a naval officer, could not sign a novel and had to choose a pseudonym, Max-Anély. This constraint may have contributed to this much-desired frontispiece being abandoned. However, in all likelihood, it was validated by the two trial woodcuts. Monfreid will also use the same male face to produce the ex-libris requested by Segalen.
In his letter dated 2 November, the poet already imagined a confidential print for Monfreid's work. In the end, only two color copies of this proof, enhanced in gold, seem to have been preserved, the second being today in the collections of the Musée Maurice Denis in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Only two other original color proofs (the second one is preserved at the Musée Maurice Denis in Saint-Germain-en-Laye), are known to date.

Les Immémoriaux – Woodcut drawn, engraved and printed in color by George-Daniel de Monfreid for the frontispiece of Victor Segalen's novel
Original color proof of a woodcut inspired by the work of Gauguin and engraved by George-Daniel de Monfreid for a frontispiece project, remaining unpublished, of Victor Segalen's Les Immémoriaux.

Only one other original color proof and one print run, in black and white (see below), are known to date.
Printed in two tones, green and brown, on old Japan and enhanced with gilt painting by the artist.

This engraved woodcut was to illustrate, as a frontispiece, the original edition of Segalen's Les Immémoriaux, an ethnographic novel, directly inspired by his trip to Polynesia following in Gauguin's footsteps. Segalen, therefore, asked the painter's follower and closest friend to produce it, to whom he also offered Noa Noa, bought in Papeete during the auction sale of Gauguin's goods. A mutual friendship and admiration was then born between Segalen and Monfreid under the tutelary aegis of the late painter. It is also in constant reference to the Master, that the two friends produce this frontispiece, to which Segalen attached great importance but which he will be obliged to abandon due to publishing costs:
“This is a lot more interesting for me: what will you do for my plate? If I dared to imagine something, it would be a formidable full-face figure, very plain, very worn, and of an androgyne with male tendences; in short, the Maori type described by Gauguin in his Noa Noa and produced by him in the carved wood that remained in Tahiti (face of a woman comparable to that which you possess) and of which I gave you a photograph I believe. [...] Are you in favor of reserving your frontispiece for luxury and friends' copies or of prostituting it in current copies? Allow me to renew a timid desire, expressed at your Vollard exhibition: if you print some more proofs from your color engravings, in pochoir, do not forget me.” (Brest, 2 November 1906).

Monfreid's response, 8 January 1907: “I have started looking for your plate. Ah! I will not describe it to you yet: it does not come according to what your book should evoke. Besides, I am not rich in imagination, let alone in “symbolism”, I remain – as you have noticed – a “naturalist” (but not a “realist”) and to summarize the impression of your Les Immémoriaux, one would have to be Gauguin. Finally, even so, I am not losing hope of doing something; only that I need a little more time to study it...”.
Monfreid will produce two trial woodcuts – whose sizes (22 x 12 cm and 23 x 16 cm) were not adapted to the edition – each time using the same formidable and frustrated figures Segalen wanted. Our woodcut seems to be the final version of these studies, perfectly adapted to the in-12 format of Mercure de France. However, the illustration includes the name of the author at the top, yet Segalen, a naval officer, could not sign a novel and had to choose a pseudonym, Max-Anély. This constraint may have contributed to this much-desired frontispiece being abandoned. However, in all likelihood, it was validated by the two trial woodcuts. Monfreid will also use the same male face to produce the ex-libris requested by Segalen.
In his letter dated 2 November, the poet already imagined a confidential print for Monfreid's work. In the end, only two color copies of this proof, enhanced in gold, seem to have been preserved, the second being today in the collections of the Musée Maurice Denis in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

The artist had likely printed one for himself and offered the other to Segalen who dreamed of owning etching of the one he called his "Boss" and to whom he would dedicate his collection of poems, Peintures.

La Mémoire et l'Imagination. Noa Noa. Unique proof of the woodcut drawn and engraved after Paul Gauguin by George-Daniel de Monfreid
Original proof, likely unique, of this intermediate state of a woodcut drawn and engraved by George-Daniel de Monfreid after a watercolor by Paul Gauguin. Print on fine cream laid paper, annotation by the artist in the left-hand margin.

Woodcut drawn and engraved after a watercolor from the Noa Noa manuscript, pasted on a page of text of the famous album.
The final woodcut will serve as the head of the first illustrated edition of Noa Noa, published by Crès in 1924, the first illustrated work after Paul Gauguin and a majestic tribute to one of the precursors of modern art.

Superb and significant engraving after a very specific watercolor from Paul Gauguin's manuscript, a real breakthrough in text, engraved by his closest friend and executor, the artist George-Daniel de Monfreid, heir to the album he would offer to the French State in 1927.

The initial watercolor was cut out in waves around the female figure and pasted on the last chapter to prevent it from being read and thus get the story back on track. Gauguin had also added winding lines starting from the watercolor on the text page, thus giving the impression of a cave breaking through the page, by the psychic power of the sitting woman whose head diffuses the undulating rays. Monfreid decided to place it at the head of the work accompanied by two birds taken from other works, to illustrate the power of the artist and his imagination.
A likely unique proof, part of 17 known test woodcuts from the early project to publish Noa Noa, all made on various fine papers and annotated by the artist.

Unique proof of a woodcut engraved after the mystical watercolor erasing the first ending of the story to allow the reader to graphically enter the painted album, repeated in the printed version as the initiatory opening of the engraved story.



It is from the original illustrated manuscript of Noa Noa, brought back from Tahiti by Segalen on the artist's death in 1903, that Monfreid began producing this fundamental work from as early as 1904. This is the second version of this “to read and look at” notebook. The first manuscript, written on the return of his first voyage and entrusted by Gauguin to Charles Morice in 1893, responded to a different project. Gauguin had composed only the text, interspersed with blank pages for Morice's poems. But after several years without news, Morice preferred to publish a version entirely rewritten by himself in 1901. Gauguin, therefore, copied his manuscript and illustrated it during his second stay in Polynesia, with sketches, watercolors and collages. This album, that the artist enriched and safely preserved until his death, is preserved today at the Musée d'Orsay.


It is, therefore, from this manuscript, the only one illustrated, that Monfreid composed the edition of Gauguin's Noa Noa. However, although Monfreid's publication was forward, it took more than twenty years to complete, in part due to a copyright dispute with Charles Morice who wanted to be co-author of the forthcoming edition and whose poems would eventually be preserved.


The result of several years of reflection and work, the 1924 edition is both faithful to the watercolors and woodcut engravings illustrating the precious manuscript, and to the whole of Gauguin's Tahitian work, who died in indifference. Monfreid thus engraves several drawings from the original notebook and enriches it with woodcuts made from other works of which he is the custodian. Some of these compositions combine several paintings, while scrupulously respecting the artist's line, transforming the work into a true journey through the painter's works. The very choice of using wood engraving is a tribute to this technique prized by Gauguin, who, in Pont-Aven, produced 10 woodcuts to illustrate his manuscript between his two Polynesian stays. The intermediate woodcuts, until then unknown, testify to the slow work of composition to restore the artistic richness of Gauguin's work by his most faithful artistic companion and first champion: “When I saw Gauguin for the first time, I was greatly disconcerted by the details of art that radiated from his works as well as from the conversations of this extraordinary man... You immediately felt that he was the Master” (in L'Hermitage, 1903).

Diane et Actéon aux Marquises. Noa Noa. Unique proof of the woodcut drawn and engraved after Paul Gauguin by George-Daniel de MonfreidOriginal proof, likely unique, of this intermediate state of a woodcut drawn and engraved by George-Daniel de Monfreid after two works by Paul Gauguin. Print on Japan silk, annotation by the artist in the left-hand margin.

Woodcut drawn and engraved after two works, the man holding a branch being a reproduction of a watercolor on page 37 of the Noa Noa manuscript, while the full-length woman originally observed by this browser, is presented here in bust with her hand to her face, model reproduced on a woodcut engraved by Gauguin on page 4 of the manuscript (and his original sketch pasted on page 51), evoking a similar scene.
The final woodcut will serve as the head of chapter IV of the first true illustrated edition of Noa Noa, published by Crès in 1924, the first illustrated work after Paul Gauguin and a majestic tribute to one of the precursors of modern art.

Superb engraving synthesizing a watercolor from the original Noa Noa manuscript, inspired by the myth of Diana and Actaeon, engraved by Gauguin's closest friend and executor, the artist George-Daniel de Monfreid, heir to the album he would offer to the French State in 1927.
A likely unique proof, part of 17 known test woodcuts from the early project to publish Noa Noa, all made on various fine papers and annotated by the artist.
Woodcut engraved after a watercolor reinterpreting the myth of Diana, surprised in the bath by Actaeon. In the engraving, Monfreid took care to preserve the typical of deer antler shape of the branch seized by the indiscreet, which evokes its metamorphosis by the goddess.

A very rare work by Gauguin mixing ancient mythology and island exoticism, whose subversive power seems entirely carried by the vahine Diana's expression of feint surprise.



It is from the original illustrated manuscript of Noa Noa, brought back from Tahiti by Segalen on the artist's death in 1903, that Monfreid began producing this fundamental work from as early as 1904. This is the second version of this “to read and look at” notebook. The first manuscript, written on the return of his first voyage and entrusted by Gauguin to Charles Morice in 1893, responded to a different project. Gauguin had composed only the text, interspersed with blank pages for Morice's poems. But after several years without news, Morice preferred to publish a version entirely rewritten by himself in 1901. Gauguin, therefore, copied his manuscript and illustrated it during his second stay in Polynesia, with sketches, watercolors and collages. This album, that the artist enriched and safely preserved until his death, is preserved today at the Musée d'Orsay.


It is, therefore, from this manuscript, the only one illustrated, that Monfreid composed the edition of Gauguin's Noa Noa. However, although Monfreid's publication was forward, it took more than twenty years to complete, in part due to a copyright dispute with Charles Morice who wanted to be co-author of the forthcoming edition and whose poems would eventually be preserved.


The result of several years of reflection and work, the 1924 edition is both faithful to the watercolors and woodcut engravings illustrating the precious manuscript, and to the whole of Gauguin's Tahitian work, who died in indifference. Monfreid thus engraves several drawings from the original notebook and enriches it with woodcuts made from other works of which he is the custodian. Some of these compositions combine several paintings, while scrupulously respecting the artist's line, transforming the work into a true journey through the painter's works. The very choice of using wood engraving is a tribute to this technique prized by Gauguin, who, in Pont-Aven, produced 10 woodcuts to illustrate his manuscript between his two Polynesian stays. The intermediate woodcuts, until then unknown, testify to the slow work of composition to restore the artistic richness of Gauguin's work by his most faithful artistic companion and first champion: “When I saw Gauguin for the first time, I was greatly disconcerted by the details of art that radiated from his works as well as from the conversations of this extraordinary man... You immediately felt that he was the Master” (in L'Hermitage, 1903).

Les Odalisques aux mangues. Noa Noa. Unique proof of the woodcut
drawn and engraved after Paul Gauguin by George-Daniel de MonfreidOriginal proof, likely unique, of this intermediate state of a woodcut drawn and engraved by George-Daniel de Monfreid after Paul Gauguin.
Print on fine cream laid paper, annotation by the artist in the left-hand margin.
Woodcut drawn and engraved after two different works. The back of the woman is an exact reproduction of an ink from page 92 of the Noa Noa manuscript, while the woman lying down takes up the well-known theme of the woman with mangos, Te Arii Vahine-Opoi, that Gauguin represented in paint as well as with an engraving in 1898.
The final woodcut will serve as the head of chapter V of the first true illustrated edition of Noa Noa, published by Crès in 1924, the first illustrated work from Paul Gauguin and a majestic tribute to one of the precursors of modern art.
Superb and significant engraving uniting two major themes of the Tahitian work, including the central drawing of the Noa Noa manuscript, faithfully engraved by Gauguin's closest friend and executor, the artist George-Daniel de Monfreid.

A likely unique proof, part of 17 known test woodcuts from the project to prematurely publish Noa Noa, all made on various fine papers and annotated by the artist.

Woodcut engraved from two major original works. By uniting these two vahines with sensual postures, Monfreid brings about a true synthesis of Gauguin's work, all while using the traditional double figure of the artist's paintings.



It is from the original illustrated manuscript of Noa Noa, brought back from Tahiti by Segalen on the artist's death in 1903, that Monfreid began producing this fundamental work from as early as 1904. This is the second version of this “to read and look at” notebook. The first manuscript, written on the return of his first voyage and entrusted by Gauguin to Charles Morice in 1893, responded to a different project. Gauguin had composed only the text, interspersed with blank pages for Morice's poems. But after several years without news, Morice preferred to publish a version entirely rewritten by himself in 1901. Gauguin, therefore, copied his manuscript and illustrated it during his second stay in Polynesia, with sketches, watercolors and collages. This album, that the artist enriched and safely preserved until his death, is preserved today at the Musée d'Orsay.


It is, therefore, from this manuscript, the only one illustrated, that Monfreid composed the edition of Gauguin's Noa Noa. However, although Monfreid's publication was forward, it took more than twenty years to complete, in part due to a copyright dispute with Charles Morice who wanted to be co-author of the forthcoming edition and whose poems would eventually be preserved.


The result of several years of reflection and work, the 1924 edition is both faithful to the watercolors and woodcut engravings illustrating the precious manuscript, and to the whole of Gauguin's Tahitian work, who died in indifference. Monfreid thus engraves several drawings from the original notebook and enriches it with woodcuts made from other works of which he is the custodian. Some of these compositions combine several paintings, while scrupulously respecting the artist's line, transforming the work into a true journey through the painter's works. The very choice of using wood engraving is a tribute to this technique prized by Gauguin, who, in Pont-Aven, produced 10 woodcuts to illustrate his manuscript between his two Polynesian stays. The intermediate woodcuts, until then unknown, testify to the slow work of composition to restore the artistic richness of Gauguin's work by his most faithful artistic companion and first champion: “When I saw Gauguin for the first time, I was greatly disconcerted by the details of art that radiated from his works as well as from the conversations of this extraordinary man... You immediately felt that he was the Master” (in L'Hermitage, 1903).

Tehura. Original proof engraved after
the painting "Merahi Metua no Tehamana".
Intermediate state for Noa NoaOriginal proof, likely unique, of this intermediate state of “Tehura”, wood drawn and engraved after Paul Gaughin's painting “Merahi Metua no Tehamana” by George-Daniel de Monfreid.
Print on fine cream laid paper, annotation by the artist in the left-hand margin.

The definitive wood served as the head of chapter VI, “Le Conteur parle”, page 81 of the true first edition of Noa Noa published by Crès in 1924, the first illustrated work from Paul Gauguin and
a majestic tribute to one of the precursors of modern art.
A most important and very first woodcut of Gauguin's masterpiece, engraved by his closest friend and executor, artist George-Daniel de Monfreid, to whom Gauguin offered the painting after two unsuccessful exhibitions.

Likely unique proof, part of 17 known test prints from the project to publish prematurely Noa Noa, all made on various fine papers and annotated by the artist.
Precious woodcut after Gauguin's masterpiece Merahi metua no Tehamana, showing the painter's wife, his main tahitian model.



It is from the original illustrated manuscript of Noa Noa, brought back from Tahiti by Segalen on the artist's death in 1903, that Monfreid began producing this fundamental work from as early as 1904. This is the second version of this “to read and look at” notebook. The first manuscript, written on the return of his first voyage and entrusted by Gauguin to Charles Morice in 1893, responded to a different project. Gauguin had composed only the text, interspersed with blank pages for Morice's poems. But after several years without news, Morice preferred to publish a version entirely rewritten by himself in 1901. Gauguin, therefore, copied his manuscript and illustrated it during his second stay in Polynesia, with sketches, watercolors and collages. This album, that the artist enriched and safely preserved until his death, is preserved today at the Musée d'Orsay.


It is, therefore, from this manuscript, the only one illustrated, that Monfreid composed the edition of Gauguin's Noa Noa. However, although Monfreid's publication was forward, it took more than twenty years to complete, in part due to a copyright dispute with Charles Morice who wanted to be co-author of the forthcoming edition and whose poems would eventually be preserved.


The result of several years of reflection and work, the 1924 edition is both faithful to the watercolors and woodcut engravings illustrating the precious manuscript, and to the whole of Gauguin's Tahitian work, who died in indifference. Monfreid thus engraves several drawings from the original notebook and enriches it with woodcuts made from other works of which he is the custodian. Some of these compositions combine several paintings, while scrupulously respecting the artist's line, transforming the work into a true journey through the painter's works. The very choice of using wood engraving is a tribute to this technique prized by Gauguin, who, in Pont-Aven, produced 10 woodcuts to illustrate his manuscript between his two Polynesian stays. The intermediate woodcuts, until then unknown, testify to the slow work of composition to restore the artistic richness of Gauguin's work by his most faithful artistic companion and first champion: “When I saw Gauguin for the first time, I was greatly disconcerted by the details of art that radiated from his works as well as from the conversations of this extraordinary man... You immediately felt that he was the Master” (in L'Hermitage, 1903).

It is, therefore, from this manuscript, the only one illustrated, that Monfreid composed the edition of Gauguin's Noa Noa. However, although Monfreid's publication was forward, it took more than twenty years to complete, in part due to a copyright dispute with Charles Morice who wanted to be co-author of the forthcoming edition and whose poems would eventually be preserved.


The result of several years of reflection and work, the 1924 edition is both faithful to the watercolors and woodcut engravings illustrating the precious manuscript, and to the whole of Gauguin's Tahitian work, who died in indifference. Monfreid thus engraves several drawings from the original notebook and enriches it with woodcuts made from other works of which he is the custodian. Some of these compositions combine several paintings, while scrupulously respecting the artist's line, transforming the work into a true journey through the painter's works. The very choice of using wood engraving is a tribute to this technique prized by Gauguin, who, in Pont-Aven, produced 10 woodcuts to illustrate his manuscript between his two Polynesian stays. The intermediate woodcuts, until then unknown, testify to the slow work of composition to restore the artistic richness of Gauguin's work by his most faithful artistic companion and first champion: “When I saw Gauguin for the first time, I was greatly disconcerted by the details of art that radiated from his works as well as from the conversations of this extraordinary man... You immediately felt that he was the Master” (in L'Hermitage, 1903).

First edition, one of 90 numbered copies, the only ones to be enriched with a piece of crumpled paper signed by César, an etching signed by Titus-Carmel and an original lithograph by Jean-Pierre Le Boul'ch, the “tirage de tête”.
Numerous text and graphic contributions including those by Jacques Monory, Boltansky, Pierre Tilman, Le Gac, Peter Klasen, Daniel Biga, Hamilton, Gérard Titus-Carmel, Rémi Esnault,Françoise Thieck, Pierre Della Faille, Claude Held, César, etc...
A rare and beautiful copy of the “tirage de tête” of this issue of the Chorus magazine, published from 1968 to 1973.

Original etching by Camille Bryen printed on Japan paper and created for the work Feuilles éparses in homage to René Crevel.
Autograph inscription signed by the artist in the lower margin of the plate: "à Louis Broder avec l'amitié. Bryen"
A very handsome copy.

Original etching by Giacometti printed on japon and created for the work Feuilles éparses in homage to René Crevel.
Handsome copy.

Original print by Jean Arp printed on japon and created for the work Feuilles éparses in homage to René Crevel.
Handsome copy.

Original color print, pulled on laid paper, signed upper left of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the height of the Art Deco movement.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and for some highlighted with gold or palladium.
The adventure began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of the world and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decided to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observed, there was no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The success of the magazine was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brought together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the period: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in fashion history. Combining aesthetic requirements and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of women, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, on laid paper, signed at bottom right of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "were addressed to bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, Babar's father) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel therefore assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the idea the illustrator had of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic requirements and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents of the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and bold, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print on laid paper, the signature does not allow identification of the artist.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "were addressed to bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, Babar's father) La Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel therefore assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the idea the illustrator had of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic requirements and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents of the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and bold, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, on laid paper, signed at lower right on the plate.
La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full flowering of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It comprises 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "address bibliophiles and fashionable aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are executed using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some outlined in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of fashion and society - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the editor-in-chief's words: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success is immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brings together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who are George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, most unknown when Lucien Vogel calls upon them, will subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators create the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and enhance the dresses of seven creators of the era: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provide exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations show no actual model, but only the illustrator's idea of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and visual unity, it brings together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposes, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and bold, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, on laid paper, signed at bottom left of the plate.
A few discrete red stains affecting the plate.
La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the twentieth century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
The famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications « s'adressent aux bibliophiles et aux mondains esthètes » ["are addressed to bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes"] (Françoise Tétart-Vittu « La Gazette du bon ton » in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, later adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metallic pochoir technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted with gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then « Art, modes et frivolités » ["Art, fashion and frivolities"]. Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: « En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France. » ["In 1910, he observes, there was no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] (« Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel » in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, mai 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts such as George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations show no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton marks a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the « petit journal mourant » ["dying little journal"] that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, on laid paper, signed at top left of the plate.
La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the twentieth century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
The famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications « s'adressent aux bibliophiles et aux mondains esthètes » ["are addressed to bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes"] (Françoise Tétart-Vittu « La Gazette du bon ton » in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, later adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metallic pochoir technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted with gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then « Art, modes et frivolités » ["Art, fashion and frivolities"]. Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: « En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France. » ["In 1910, he observes, there was no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] (« Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel » in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, mai 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts such as George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations show no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton marks a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the « petit journal mourant » ["dying little journal"] that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print heightened with palladium, printed on laid paper, signed at the bottom right of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists at the height of the Art Deco movement.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2,000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they used a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints were created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decided to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités." Georges Charensol reported the words of the editor-in-chief: "In 1910, he observed, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I therefore thought of creating a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, no. 133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlighted and sublimated the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton was a decisive step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic excellence and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of women, slender, independent and bold, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, printed on laid paper, signed at the top right of the plate.
La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists at the height of the Art Deco movement.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2,000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they used a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints were created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decided to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités." Georges Charensol reported the words of the editor-in-chief: "In 1910, he observed, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I therefore thought of creating a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, no. 133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlighted and sublimated the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton was a decisive step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic excellence and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of women, slender, independent and bold, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, printed on laid paper, unsigned.
La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists at the height of the Art Deco movement.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "were addressed to bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu « La Gazette du bon ton » in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, later adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, enhanced in colors and some highlighted with gold or palladium.
The adventure began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already contributed to the magazine Femina - decided to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: « En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France. » ["In 1910, he observed, there was no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I therefore thought of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] (« Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel » in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, mai 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts including George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, and Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the era: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton marks a decisive stage in fashion history. Combining aesthetic excellence and visual unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and established, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman - slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, printed on laid paper, signed at bottom right of the plate.
La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists at the height of the Art Deco movement.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "were addressed to bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu « La Gazette du bon ton » in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, later adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, enhanced in colors and some highlighted with gold or palladium.
The adventure began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already contributed to the magazine Femina - decided to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: « En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France. » ["In 1910, he observed, there was no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I therefore thought of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] (« Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel » in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, mai 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts including George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, and Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the era: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton marks a decisive stage in fashion history. Combining aesthetic excellence and visual unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and established, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman - slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, printed on laid paper, signed in the lower right of the plate.
Some discreet stains, of no concern.
La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the height of the Art Deco movement.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It comprises 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "address bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin typeface, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metallic stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted with gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of the world and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observes, there was no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I therefore thought of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The success of the magazine is immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brings together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts such as George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel calls upon them, will subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators create the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the period: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provide exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations show no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic excellence and plastic unity, it brings together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and establishes, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton will largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, printed on laid paper, signed in the lower right of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the height of the Art Deco movement.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It comprises 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "address bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin typeface, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metallic stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted with gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of the world and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observes, there was no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I therefore thought of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The success of the magazine is immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brings together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts such as George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel calls upon them, will subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators create the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the period: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provide exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations show no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic excellence and plastic unity, it brings together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and establishes, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton will largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had purchased a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print, printed on laid paper, signed at center bottom of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full bloom of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they used a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints were created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and for some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decided to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observed, there was no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The success of the magazine was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic excellence and plastic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents of the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, La Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original lithograph printed on BFK de Rives paper. "Artist's proof" notation written in pencil at lower left. Artist's signature in pencil at lower right of the plate.
Margins soiled with small creasing marks.
Mysterious landscape with luxuriant vegetation, fire at center, depicts the titan against a background of hills in green and orange tones.

Invitation card to the Quat'z'Arts Ball - “L'Entrée de Cyrus dans Babylone”
PMarmy, Paris 1925, 22.5 x 32 cm, one leaf
Invitation card to the Quat'z'Arts Ball - “L'Entrée de Cyrus dans Babylone” which took place on 22 June 1925 in Wagram. Very beautiful colour illustration by Théo Sardnal depicting Cyrus the Great.
This rare document presents the tickets in the lower margin and solemnly specifies: “Le comité sera impitoyable pour tout costume qui ne sera pas de l'époque” “The committee will be ruthless with all costumes that are not of the era”.
The first Quat'z'Arts ball, a great celebration organised by the students of the École nationale des beaux-arts in Paris, took place on 23 April 1892. This tradition continued until 1966.
A superb copy in bright colours and in new condition.

Original lithograph printed on watermarked Arches laid paper. Artist's signature and numbering (4/300) in pencil at the bottom of the plate.
This lithograph titled "La cafetière" is part of the series L'Intérieur des choses.

Original woodcut printed on watermarked BFK de Rives laid paper. Signed by the artist and numbered (1/10) in pencil at bottom of plate. Dry stamp of publisher Erker Press.

Original color print finely heightened in gold, printed on laid paper, signed at bottom right of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are made using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of the world and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the editor-in-chief's words: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observed, there was no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because in fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts including George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the era: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in fashion history. Combining aesthetic demands and artistic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print finely heightened in gold, printed on laid paper, signed at bottom right of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are made using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of the world and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the editor-in-chief's words: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observed, there was no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because in fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts including George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the era: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations featured no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in fashion history. Combining aesthetic demands and artistic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original double color print, printed on laid paper, signed at bottom right of the plate. 

Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full bloom of Art Deco. 

Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications “ addressed bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes ” (Françoise Tétart-Vittu “ La Gazette du bon ton ” in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then “ Art, modes et frivolités ”. Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief : “ In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France. ” (“ Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel ” in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success is immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus assembled a group of seven artists : André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt ; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who are George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly join the team : Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel calls upon them, will later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators create the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the time : Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provide exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the idea that the illustrator has of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and visual unity, it brings together for the first time the great talents of the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposes, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and bold, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the “ petit journal mourant ” that Nast had bought a few years earlier : Vogue magazine.
 

Original color print created by Pierre Mourgue, printed on laid paper, signed at bottom right of the plate. Advertising plate for dresses by Jeanne Lanvin on verso.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full bloom of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success is immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who are George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel calls upon them, will later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators create the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provide exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the idea that the illustrator has of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive stage in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands and visual unity, it brings together for the first time the great talents of the worlds of arts, letters and fashion and imposes, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and bold, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "petit journal mourant" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print created by Edouard Halouze, finely heightened in gold, printed on laid paper and signed in the upper right of the plate.
Painter, illustrator and decorator, Edouard Halouze drew fashion vignettes for the Gazette du Bon ton from the magazine's beginnings. Alongside this work, he participated in 1920 in an exhibition devoted to "La mode vue par les peintres" presented at the Musée des arts décoratifs.
He distinguished himself from other Gazette illustrators through his Cubist style in sets, costumes and program covers for music-halls.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full bloom of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. Upon their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the Femina magazine - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I therefore thought of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brought together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in fashion history. Combining aesthetic requirement and artistic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of art, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and bold, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print advertising the permanent wave according to Eugène Perma, printed on laid paper. Three advertising vignettes on the reverse on "The magical Marcel method of permanent hair waving", the Salon du des humoristes and Pissot & Pavy's hats.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full bloom of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. Upon their publication, these luxurious publications "addressed bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metal stencil technique, heightened in colors and some highlighted in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the Femina magazine - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, the father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France." ["In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I therefore thought of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."] ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The magazine's success was immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brought together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them, would later become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the illustrator's idea of contemporary fashion.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in fashion history. Combining aesthetic requirement and artistic unity, it brought together for the first time the great talents from the worlds of art, letters and fashion and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and bold, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "dying little journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

Original color print advertising the Verlaine shop, printed on laid paper. Two advertising vignettes on the reverse about Valaze and Dr Dys products.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists in the full bloom of art deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton appeared until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication, these luxurious publications "address bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes" (Françoise Tétart-Vittu "La Gazette du bon ton" in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Printed on fine laid paper, they use a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot, the Cochin character, adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints are created using the metallic stencil technique, heightened in colors and some outlined in gold or palladium.
The adventure begins in 1912 when Lucien Vogel, man of the world and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decides to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff (sister of Jean, father of Babar) the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then "Art, modes et frivolités". Georges Charensol reports the words of the editor-in-chief: "In 1910, he observes, there existed no fashion journal truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists [...] I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France." ("Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel" in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, May 1925). The success of the magazine is immediate, not only in France, but also in the United States and South America.
Originally, Vogel thus brings together a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud, followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who are George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, or Charles Martin. Other talents quickly come to join the team: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. These artists, unknown for the most part when Lucien Vogel calls upon them, will subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These are the same illustrators who create the drawings for the advertisements of the Gazette.
The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the time: Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provide exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless, some of the illustrations feature no real model, but only the idea that the illustrator has of the fashion of the day.
La Gazette du bon ton is a decisive step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic requirements and plastic unity, it brings together for the first time the great talents of the world of arts, letters and fashion and imposes, through this alchemy, a completely new image of woman, slender, independent and audacious, also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas...
Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast, the Gazette du bon ton will largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the "small dying journal" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine.

The Konjaku is a compilation of tales and stories that aim to present, in a Buddhist vision, the history of the world. It was formerly attributed to Minamoto no Takakuni (1004-1077), court counselor and great scholar. In its complete version, it was composed of tales about India, China and Japan, this compilation only including those representing Japan. The translation could be: Collection of stories belonging to the past. The stories feature exemplary behaviors that should serve as models or codes for conduct. They are written in Sino-Japanese language.
47 woodcut engravings, 2 to 3 per volume, by an unidentified artist.
Japanese-style sewn wrappers. Printed on mulberry paper. Title labels missing from covers. Most volumes loose and partially unstitched. Paper on covers with scattered flowers, and medallions with foliage and flowers, in red on white ground. The endpapers are mostly separated from the covers.

Scroll unrolling horizontally with a title leaf of 3 ideograms (Spring Dream) and 11 colored prints mounted on silk (actually a single print consisting of 11 scenes). When fully unrolled, the ensemble reaches 250cm. The scroll is held closed by a string, the paper is rolled around a piece of wood.
The scroll, made of relatively thick paper is covered with fine silk on the side where the engraving is mounted. The 11 scenes consist of a single long printing on 180 cm, one can perceive by the presence of the lower margin that these 11 scenes were thus printed several times on a large sheet, which were then cut out. This type of printing required a large press. Each scene measures approximately 16x20cm.
Excellent condition. One crease on one of the prints.
It is quite difficult to date this type of anonymous production with exactitude, which can be situated from the end of the 19th century until the 1930s, or even beyond. The 11 scenes depict amorous frolics and sexual practices with more diversity than in Japanese erotic prints (shunga). The scenes take place outdoors, among luxuriant nature or in richly furnished interiors. Painters had specialized in this type of paintings and it is not uncommon to find certain prints mixed with other collections.

Original color linocut printed on Arches paper, created for Treize têtes de français, signed by the artist and numbered (138/220) in pencil at lower left.

Original color linocut printed on Arches paper, created for Treize têtes de français, signed by the artist and numbered (108/120) in pencil at lower left.

Original poster inscribed by Lawrence Durrell

Original poster by Karen Horowitz numbered 145/200, dated 1974 and signed in pencil, showing a photograph with a superimposed quote from Lawrence Durrell's Justine: “The world is like a cucumber – today it's in your hand, tomorrow up your ass”.
A few tiny wormholes.

Manuscript inscription in felt tip pen by Lawrence Durrell to the left of the quote: “Buttons dear Attention! Larry Durrell. 1978”

This poster was given to a young lover of the author's who, in both Sommières and Paris, livened up his lonely days at the end of the 60s and in the 70s. Janine Brun, also known as “Buttons” in the author's letters and postcards was described thus by Durrell's biographer Ian McNiven: “She was almost thirty but she looked much younger, with a girl's small-breasted figure, as dark-haired as Claude Kiefer was blonde, and not languorous but tremendously energetic” (Lawrence Durrell: A Biography, page 591).
Their affair stretched to the end of the 1970s, Jani/Buttons appearing now and then in the works of Durrell, most notably in the poem “Vaumort” (Collected Poems: 1931-1974) and in the author's famous correspondence with Henry Miller: “that little demon Buttons [...] turned up for a New Year TRINC and stayed the night with me finally, in my eternal little Room 13 at the Royal.” (letter from Durrell to Miller, 6 January 1979). She also got postcards and letters full of solicitude, intimate allusions and suggestions for reading from Durrell and his great friend Henry Miller, as well as works of art signed by Durrell himself.

Greeting card, printed on BFK of Rives to small number, of the French Institute of Barcelona, for the year 1966 and illustrated with an original engraving of Louis Chavignier that he signed .
Small bites on the margins of the second board, otherwise nice copy.

Extremely rare and humoristic menu pamphlet from the “souper démocratique” “democratic supper” organised by the République de Montmartre, newly founded in 1921. The date shown is a parody of the republican calendar: "17 Neigeôse, An I".
A magnificent original wood engraving, representing the Communards on the Montmartre hill and bearing the monogram “Armand,” adorns the first board.
In the spirit of the Paris Commune, the République de Montmartre was created in the early 1920s by the Parisian artists Joé Bridge, Adolphe Willette, Jean-Louis Forain, Francisque Poulbot, Maurice Neumont, Louis Morin, Maurice Millière, Raoul Guérin and Jules Depaquit. Their parties and banquets, often organised in Montmartre's legendary venues (Moulin de la Galette, cirque Médrano, Moulin Rouge) were intended to unite the Montmartre community by mutual aid and sociability.
This menu is a rare testimony of the beginnings of this joyful and festive organisation, which is delivering here a very comical banquet where one serves “Fois d'aristocrates truffés de chez Julien” “Julian's truffled aristocrat livers,” “Salade d'Emigrés” “Salad of Expatriates” and “Fruits de la Révolution” “Fruits of the Revolution.” It ends with the motto “SALUT, FRATERNITE, et BON APPETIT !” “CHEERS, FRATERNITY, and BON APPETIT!”

Very rare prospectus for the banquet of the Republic of Montmartre, organized at the Moulin de la Galette on November 6, 1931.
In the upper part, there is a beautiful original print signed Francisque Poulbot representing the citizens of the Republic of Montmartre returning from vacation.
In the spirit of the Paris Commune, the Republic of Montmartre was created in 1921 by Parisian artists Joé Bridge, Adolphe Willette, Jean-Louis Forain, Francisque Poulbot, Maurice Neumont, Louis Morin, Maurice Milliere, Raoul Guerin and Jules Depaquit . His parties and banquets, often organized in the mythical places of Montmartre (Moulin de la Galette, Circus Medrano, Moulin Rouge) were intended to weld the Montmartre community by mutual aid and sociability.

First edition bilingual Italian-French of this catalog of the works of Jean Gaudaire Thor, one of 300 copies including an original artist proof of Jean Gaudaire Thor that he justified and signed. .
Nice copy.
Rich iconography.
Autograph dedication of Jean Gaudaire Thor to Mr. and Mrs. François Sutel.

First edition.
Publisher's full blue cloth bindings, complete with their illustrated dust jackets and soft cardboard slipcases (except for the last volume).
Minor tears and insignificant damage to the soft cardboard slipcases, some also insignificant tears to the dust jackets.
Very rich iconography.
Handsome complete set in four volumes.

First edition, one of the few artist copies on Ingres d'Arches paper, only leading copies with 75 numbered copies on Ingres d'Arches paper.
Back very slightly insolated without gravity.
Illustrated book of two original lithographs by Olivier O. Olivier.
Our copy, like the first 15 copies on Ingres d'Arches paper, includes a suite of two lithographs, unnumbered but justified by Olivier O. Olivier and signed.
Signed autograph of Olivier O. Olivier in Nanie and Jörg (Ortner).

First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Arches paper, only leading copies.
Very beautiful and unique copy.
Like the 75 numbered copies on Arches paper, the cover of ours is painted by Marc Feld and handwritten by Zeno Bianu, each cover being different from the other 74, which makes it an original work.
Book decorated with illustrations by Marc Feld.
Our copy, like all copies of the head print on Arches paper, includes an original engraving, ours in blue nuance, Marc Feld he signed and justified.
The book also includes the Dvd Jean-Jacques Nguyen placed at the end of the volume.
Autographed and signed autograph by Marc Feld to Charles (Dobzynski): "For dear Charles, in the keenest of presence, with my friendship."
Handwritten signatures of Zeno Bianu and Marc Feld at the colophon.

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower left of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed on the top left of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print finely enhanced color to gold, printed on laid paper, signed lower left of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower center of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print finely enhanced color to gold, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn to 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn to 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed upper right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn to 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn to 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, unidentified signature at the bottom right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn to 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn to 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower left of the board.
A small purple spot on the right side of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn to 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower center of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn to 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn to 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn to 1279 copies making it, for the time, a relatively confidential publication. The 186 plates, with great finesse, are engraved on strong paper and colored stencil. They represent the majority of the time, women, but also men and children. The models are not unlike those of the Gazette fashionable whose publication will be launched a few months later, those renowned couturiers but are the fruit of the imagination of the illustrators themselves.
The stencils are mostly executed by George Barbier, but other artists collaborating on the magazine: Léon Bakst, B. Berty, Bernard Boutet de Monvel Roger Broders, Jan van Brock, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy Etienne Drian, Abel Faivre, Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Xavier Gosé, Paul Iribe, Kriegck Victor Lhuer, Pierre Legrain, Charles Martin, Fernand Simeon, Ismael Smith, Armand Vallee and Gerda Wegener. Many of these illustrators will also be involved in The Gazette fashionable. Their work, emblematic of the Art Deco movement, emphasize the influence of Orientalism and costumes of the Ballets Russes while registering in the daily activities of affluent French of the time.
From the preface of the first issue of 1912, Anatole France said: "After seventy-five years, he is reborn. He is reborn through the efforts of a few ingenious minds and artists. He is reborn for the curious (if there is) that do not simply modes newspaper fired several thousand and illustrated by photography. And if publishers make us very exactly, in its format, with its paper, printing, its processes of etching and coloring, the old classic patterns of the past is that they intend to continue the pleasantly and become charming classic fashion of today and tomorrow. "