Jules Chéret (French, 1836-1932) Folies-Bergère/La Loïe Fuller

Description:

Jules Chéret (French, 1836-1932)

Folies-Bergère/La Loïe Fuller, 1893
Signed "JChéret" within the matrix c.r., inscribed "...IMP. CHAIX (Ateliers
Chéret) 20, Rue Bergère, Paris" l.r.
Color lithograph on paper, 47 7/8 x 34 3/8 in. (121.6 x 87.1 cm),framed.
Condition: Creased down the center on horizontal and vertical axes, losses to edges of sheet, repaired tears to margins, toning, sheet backed with a secondary support, not examined out of frame.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

Out of the frame the poster is backed by wove paper. The sheet is further enforced with clothe tape along the central horizontal crease. There are repaired tears along the edges and within the creases. The repairs occuring within the image are retouched. The work must have been stored folded for a long period of time as there is faint transfer staining to the image.

Bearing a Republique Française 20 centimes stamp to the band of text at u.c.

Label on the frame backing from Commonwealth Print Conservation, Boston, describing archival framing completed in July , 1985.


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