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Adrien BARRERE (1874-1931). Charcoal on tracing paper, signed lower right. 18 x 16 cm. Biography: Adrien Barrère was a French theater and film poster artist and caricaturist of the Belle Époque, famous in the five years preceding the First World War. After studying law and medicine, Adrien Barrère turned to illustration, particularly caricature. He has been a contributor to Fantasio since it was founded in 1906. He caricatures parliamentary figures. His poster with caricatures of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, the original of which is held by the University of Rouen in dimensions - 116 × 72 cm - twice as large as the latest copies, was immensely popular at the time - there wasn't a student who didn't have a copy - and reached 420,000 copies printed. He designed a large number of posters for Paris cinemas and theaters, notably the Grand Guignol. His collaboration with Pathé was fruitful, giving rise to a famous poster: "Tous y mènent leurs enfants" ("All lead their children there"). In 1912, the trade journal Courrier cinématographique described him as Pathé's man of the moment, creating over two hundred posters. He appeared at the Salon des humoristes in 1911 as a portraitist and caricaturist. He illustrates Courteline's work. During the Great War, he traveled to the front and field hospitals, producing press cartoons that were also published in albums. In 1919, Barrère produced the poster of the shaggy, frightening Bolshevik clutching a knife dripping with blood between his teeth, which was used as anti-communist propaganda in the post-war legislative elections. The image of the Senegalese skirmisher "cleaning the trenches" with a knife between his teeth, published in wartime propaganda, continued the tradition of the Grand Guignol.

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Adrien BARRERE (1874-1931). Charcoal on tracing paper, signed lower right. 18 x 16 cm. Biography: Adrien Barrère was a French theater and film poster artist and caricaturist of the Belle Époque, famous in the five years preceding the First World War. After studying law and medicine, Adrien Barrère turned to illustration, particularly caricature. He has been a contributor to Fantasio since it was founded in 1906. He caricatures parliamentary figures. His poster with caricatures of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, the original of which is held by the University of Rouen in dimensions - 116 × 72 cm - twice as large as the latest copies, was immensely popular at the time - there wasn't a student who didn't have a copy - and reached 420,000 copies printed. He designed a large number of posters for Paris cinemas and theaters, notably the Grand Guignol. His collaboration with Pathé was fruitful, giving rise to a famous poster: "Tous y mènent leurs enfants" ("All lead their children there"). In 1912, the trade journal Courrier cinématographique described him as Pathé's man of the moment, creating over two hundred posters. He appeared at the Salon des humoristes in 1911 as a portraitist and caricaturist. He illustrates Courteline's work. During the Great War, he traveled to the front and field hospitals, producing press cartoons that were also published in albums. In 1919, Barrère produced the poster of the shaggy, frightening Bolshevik clutching a knife dripping with blood between his teeth, which was used as anti-communist propaganda in the post-war legislative elections. The image of the Senegalese skirmisher "cleaning the trenches" with a knife between his teeth, published in wartime propaganda, continued the tradition of the Grand Guignol.

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