Full size sold for $ 8,250 US Poster Auctions International, N.Y. Nov 1994.
"Every poster collector should own one poster relating in some way to
posters. This is one of the best and most important. Pierrefort was one of many
dealers involved in posters in the 1890s (along with Sagot, Arnouls and Kleinmann)
and he commissioned posters for his shop from Lobel, De Feure and Thiriet, as
well as Ibels. We get a pantomime scene, with harlequin, singer, clowns, all delicately
drawn, with priceless expressions" (Rennert,
PAI-XIX, 371) "A member of the Nabi group of artists, Ibels shared
with the others a stylistic debt to Gauguin, but diverged from the esoteric, symbolist
interests, preferring to depict directly and honestly the popular life of the
streets"(Rennert, PAI-XXVII, 461)
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