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Georges Barbier - The Fire, Illustration For "fetes-Galantes" - 2 Dancers on black background (harlequinesque) - Framed Picture 11 x 14

£25.00

George Barbier was one of the great French illustrators of the early 20th century.

Barbier mounted his first exhibition in 1911 and was subsequently swept to the forefront of his profession with commissions to design theatre and ballet costumes, to illustrate books, and to produce haute couture fashion illustrations.

For the next 20 years Barbier led a group from the Ecole des Beaux Arts who were nicknamed by Vogue "The Knights of the Bracelet"—a tribute to their fashionable and flamboyant mannerisms and style of dress. Included in this élite circle were Bernard Boutet de Monvel and Pierre Brissaud, Paul Iribe, Georges Lepape, and Charles Martin.

Barbier also turned his hand to jewellery, glass and wallpaper design. In the mid-1920s he worked with Erté to design sets and costumes for the Folies Bergère.


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