Affiche pour la représentation de la pièce intitulée "Le partage de midi" de Paul Claudel au Grenier Jaune le 4 Février 1922

Poster for the representation of the play Le Partage de midi by Paul Claudel at the Grenier Jaune, 4 February 1922 [The Break of Noon]Rare first edition of the poster of the remake of Paul Claudel's play performed at the “Grenier jaune,” 66, rue Lepic, 4 February 1922.
Beautiful copy.
The association “Art et Action,” successor to the Passy artistic club led by Guillaume Apollinaire, founded the “Grenier Jaune” studio in 1919 on the Montmartre hill. With a motto of “lace of experimentation”, where the audacious works of futurist Filippo Marinetti, of Ribemont-Dessaignes, Louis Aragon, Romain Rolland or Paul Méral were played free-of-charge in front of a secret audience. In 1922, the Grenier Jaune's troop of amateur comedians gave a new lease of life to one of Paul Claudel's masterpieces, le Partage de midi, by making the actors evolve in almost total darkness, their silhouettes standing out against the projected sets.
The poster of the play is illustrated with an original “natural” woodcut from the Ukrainian artist Chana Orloff, framed by quotations from Claudel's play. This original contribution adds to the Grenier Jaune's numerous artistic collaborations for the creation of first drafts, sketches, paper scenery, transformation costumes and masks.