The Mirror or A Passing Glance. “La Glace or un Coup d’Oeil en Passant” Barbier, c1922.

$350.00

"La Glace or Un Coup d'Oeil en Passant" Gazette du Bon Ton c1922. Manteau du Soir, de Paul Poiret. Evening Coat designed by Paul Poiret.

Beautiful original hand-coloured fashion pochoir circa 1922 by Andre-Edouard Marty (1882-1974)) for La Gazette du Bon Ton (Journal of Good Style). From 1912 to 1925 the premier fashion illustrators introduced the latest styles by French couturiers in this exclusive periodical. Marty was one of the four regular contributors. His elegant composition shows the latest fashion within an imaginative fashion narrative.

The portrayal of fashion by the pochoir method was perfected in France, and pochoir (French for stencil), has been adopted worldwide ever since to describe the labour-intensive process of cutting a separate stencil for successive applications by hand of ink, gouache and watercolour.

Size of page, 24 x 19cm or 9.5 x 7.5 inches.