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...food the farmer's busy wife served in his malodorous one-room house (where she also removed the grease from wool with urine) "would cause a riot in any modern penitentiary," and the antique collector's prized four-poster bed originated as a cubicle to shield man & wife from the curiosity of their growing children...
...store clerk in the village of Kukarka. At a sacrifice, the family sent him to gymnasia (high school) in nearby Kazan, to college in distant Petrograd. There the backwash of the bloody revolution of 1905 hit and converted him. At 1 6 he was a full-fledged, poster-writing, bomb-making revolutionary. At 19 he had been jailed, exiled...
That was a period when the top French painters recognized no distinction between commercial and "pure" art-and when many took advertising commissions. Inevitably dominating the show, as he did the posters of his time, was the work of stunted, aristocratic Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa, who put his hand to almost every variety of graphic art. But also shown were works by Lautrec's finest contemporaries: Jean Louis Forain, Alexandre Théophile Steinlen, James Ensor, Jules Chéret, Albert Guillaume, F. A. Cazals (one poster showed Poet Paul Verlaine at an exhibition...
Most of the posters were theater, music-hall and circus advertisements. They formed a kind of profane Audubon collection of the night birds of Paris. A whole aviary was to be found in a unique four-paneled poster done by Choubrac for the Folies-Bergère, showing the scintillant plumage of the Folies, from the top hats in the lobby to the trapeze artists on the stage...
Collectors have long been interested in such huge, gay sheets. Good poster items currently bring as much as $200. The poster master, Toulouse-Lautrec, had no need of funds either from advertisers or collectors. His father was so well heeled that he could afford such eccentricities as an otter hunt, in Canadian costume, in the streets of Paris...