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WWI Poster on National Loan. FAIVRE. Pour la France, Versez votre Or. L’Or combat pour la victoire. Colored poster measuring 111 x 77 cm. Text at top and bottom of illustration. Typographical data at lower right, signature at lower left. Good condition. Patriotic First World War poster published in Paris in 1915 to encourage the French to take out the first loan for national defense. The impressive iconography depicts a gold coin with the French revolutionary motto and a large rooster ready to peck a terrified German soldier on his knees.Posters were an excellent means of propaganda and many were created with allegorical 'patriotic' themes, intended to arouse emotion and generosity.Jules Abel Faivre, 1867-1945, French painter, illustrator and cartoonist, member of the Société des Artistes Français, became famous by creating propaganda posters for the French army in the First World War. He drew comics for Le Rire, L'Écho de Paris and Le Figaro.
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WWI Poster on National Loan. FAIVRE. Pour la France, Versez votre Or. L’Or combat pour la victoire. Colored poster measuring 111 x 77 cm. Text at top and bottom of illustration. Typographical data at lower right, signature at lower left. Good condition. Patriotic First World War poster published in Paris in 1915 to encourage the French to take out the first loan for national defense. The impressive iconography depicts a gold coin with the French revolutionary motto and a large rooster ready to peck a terrified German soldier on his knees.Posters were an excellent means of propaganda and many were created with allegorical 'patriotic' themes, intended to arouse emotion and generosity.Jules Abel Faivre, 1867-1945, French painter, illustrator and cartoonist, member of the Société des Artistes Français, became famous by creating propaganda posters for the French army in the First World War. He drew comics for Le Rire, L'Écho de Paris and Le Figaro.
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