Full size sold for $ 5,060 US
Poster Auctions International, NY. Nov 2006
"The contrast between the capital-owning classes with army bayonets
behind them and the ordinary people caused widespread bitterness. For the common
man the bar-counter became a barricade at which he voiced his dissatisfaction
with the situation. In his day Ibel's admirers placed him on a par with Toulouse-Lautrec,
perhaps because what one might call his stenographic drawing has much in common
with Lautrec. L'Escamouche (the Skirmish) is an interesting specimen of French
poster art, which, however, because of the mysterious laws governing placards
and posters, was never displayed on the streets but could only appear inside closed
rooms, as is expressly stated on this poster"(bottom right) (Paris
1900, p.58) "Ibels and Lautrec were major contributors to a curiously
short-lived publication, L'Escarmouche, which lasted only three months from Nov.1893
to Jan.1894. Yet in this brief period, the magazine drew on what could be termed
a million-dollar pool of talent; just look at the contributors" (lower right)
(Wine Spectator, 56) |
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