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ORSI (1889-1947)
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LAMPE FLUORESCENTE / PHILIPS. Circa 1940.
49
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x37
3
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4
inches, 126x96 cm. Bedos & Cie, Paris.
Condition A-: creases and restoration along vertical and horizontal folds.
The expansive
Bénézit Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs
, writes of Orsi that
“his name should have an important place in the history of posters on behalf of his innovative
aesthetics.”
Bénézit
goes on to praise Orsi’s sense of simplification, his bright colors and his creative
ideas, and further estimates that Orsi designed as many as 1,000 posters. Despite this prodigious
output, nothing else has been written on the artist and no portrait of him exists. Philips was one of
his primary clients. Here, the Pointillist effect he creates to advertise a fluorescent light bulb is a classic
example of the extent of his talent. The diagonal of the bulb itself, the unique handling of the coloring,
the typography and the overall feeling of fluorescence make this an exceptional image.
[4,000/6,000]