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Emile BERCHMANS (1867-1947)
Project for a poster in the Art Nouveau style, 1916
Charcoal and pastels on paper.
815 x 600 mm (view) | 104,5 x 78 cm (framed)
Life-size cartoon for a poster, unsigned.
PROVENANCE:
With Imprimérie Bénard S.A., Liège, in 1916 under the direction of Armand Rassenfosse (1862-1934);
Private collection, Liège.
RELATED WORKS:
Emile Berchmans (1867-1947), color lithograph, Imprimérie Bénard S.A., Liège, 1916 (830 x 600 mm. Musée de la Vie Wallonne, inv. A. 9050B).
LITERATURE (including Press):
De bons accapareurs, in Le Télégraphe, 26/10/1916.
Phedon, Le Carnet d'un Liégeois, in Le Télépgraphe, 27/10/1916.
The life in Belgium, in Le Télégraphe, 29/10/1916.
Telestial chronicle, in Le Télégraphe, 30/10/1916.
L'Affiche en Wallonie, Liège : Massoz S.A., 1980, cat. nr. 137, ill. p. 121.
NOTE:
Berchmans made the present poster for a "Grand Concert Artistique de Charité" organised at the Kursaal in Liège on the 28th of October 1916. We read: "The poster was considered a masterpiece when it first appeared in the city and was commented with great praise in the press." It was yet "another testimony to a talent made up of simplicity and finesse, nobility and harmony. (And) has all qualities that need to be reunited in a good poster: originality, concision, elegance of line and the attraction of color."
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