PAL – Les Maîtres de l’Affiche : Olympia – Grand Ballet « Brighton », 1896

By PAL Jean de Paléologue (1860-1942)

PAL (Jean de Paléologue, 1855–1942)
Olympia – Grand Ballet “Brighton”, music by Léopold Wenzel, 1896 — from Les Maîtres de l’Affiche, PL. 35
Lithograph in colours on wove paper, printed by Imprimerie Chaix, Paris
Signed “PAL” in the stone right; “PL. 35” and Imprimerie Chaix credit printed in the lower left margin; Les Maîtres de l’Affiche blindstamp in the lower right margin
Dimensions:
Sheet: 39 × 29 cm (15.4 × 11.4 in.)
Image: 27.5 × 18.5 cm (10.8 × 7.3 in.)
Condition:
Good condition; a few small spots in the upper left margin. Unframed.
References: Stanley Appelbaum, The Complete “Masters of the Poster”, Dover, 1990, pl. 35
Plate 35 of Les Maîtres de l’Affiche (1895–1900), the monthly series of reduced-format posters published under Jules Chéret’s direction by Imprimerie Chaix. Poster for the ballet staged at the Olympia music hall, which had opened in Paris in 1893.
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