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PAUL COLIN (1892-1985)
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WEEK END CIGARETTES / GOÛT ANGLAIS. 1933.
59x37 inches, 150x94 cm. Bedos & Cie, Paris.
Condition B+: repaired tears, creases, abrasions and restoration at edges and along vertical and horizontal folds.
This is one of the most inventive of Paul Colin’s commercial posters. Against a grass-green background,
suggestive of the leisure implied by the product’s name, Colin shows an almost bird’s-eye view of three
people relaxing and enjoying their cigarettes. The perspective, the colors and the use of the diagonal
provide a very striking image. Colin may have been inspired by the similarity the motion of opening a
hinged pack of cigarettes has with unfolding a deck chair. Colin 173, Crouse p. 220.
[2,500/3,500]