Friday 23 December 2022

French Travel Posters - part 1

During the second half of the 19th century, the development of transportation enabled a strong increase in tourism in Europe. Timetables decorated with small black and white engravings were displayed in railway stations.

As early as 1890, the railway companies put up the first real travel posters, inviting travellers to visit historical sites and bucolic landscapes.

Hugo d’Alési was the most prolific creator of travel posters during the Belle Epoque. Working in a similar style, Henri Tanconville also designed a series of travel posters.

At the turn of the century, a different approach to travel posters emerged - from then on, a single image with shorter text became the norm.

From the 1920s. Poster artists abandoned the romanticism and arabesques of the Art Nouveau style in favour of geometric and monumental forms borrowed from Cubism and Futurism and embraced the Art Deco style.


This is part 1 of a 7-part series on French Travel Posters:


1893 Montreux, Chemin de fer Territet-Glyon aux
 Rochers de Naye
artist: Peter Balzer

c1895 Le Tréport
artist: Henri Gray

c1895 Le Tréport-Mers, Chemin de fer du Nord
artist: Henri Gray

c1895 Station Thermale Lamalou les Bains
artist: M. Pallandre

c1895 Vals-les-Bains Ardèche P.L.M.
artist: Frédéric Hugo d'Alesi

P.L.M. posters

Founded in 1857, P.L.M. (Paris to Lyon and Méditerranée Railway Company) was the largest of the private French railway companies. Until 1937 P.L.M. printed hundreds of travel of now highly collectible posters. Five private railway companies shared the French market: P.L.M., Chemins de fer d’Orléans et du Midi, Chemins de fer du Nord, Chemins de fer de l”Est, and Chemins de fer de l’Ouest. The Companies merged in 1937 to create S.N.C.F.


c1895 Voyages à Prix Réduits
artist: Gustave Fraipont

1896 Excursions en Normandie & Bretagne
artist: Georges Meunier

1900 Menton
 artist: Frédéric Hugo d'Alesi
 

1900 Vichy PLM
artist: Henri Ganier Tanconville

c1900 Grottes et Cascades de Baume
Chemins de Fer de Paris Lyon Méditerranée
artist: Henri Tanconville

c1900 Cie de Navigation Mixte & Touache
artist: Frédéric Hugo d'Alesi

c1900 Chemins de fer du Midi
Lourdes
artist: Frédéric Hugo d'Alesi

1900c Chemins de Fer de Paris Lyon Méditerranée
Grottes & Cascade de Baume
artist Henri Tanconville

c1900 Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest et de Brighton
artist: René Péan

c1900 Brides-les-Bains et Salins-Moutiers
P.L.M. Savoie
 artist: Henri de Taconville

c1900 Allevard les Bains
Billets à Prix Réduits
P.L.M.
artist: 
Frédéric Hugo d’Alesi

c1900 Lac D'Annecy
artist: 
Frédéric Hugo d’Alesi

c1900 Le Mont-Blanc
artist: 
François Charles Cachoud

c1900 Le Mont-Blanc en Chemin de Fer
artist: Georges Meunier

c1900 Menton
artist: 
Frédéric Hugo d’Alesi

c1900 San Salvador - Pres Hyères
artist: 
Frédéric Hugo d’Alesi

c1900 Vichy
Billets à Prix Réduits.
artist: Louis Tauzin

c1900 Vichy - Chemins de fer PLM
Billets a Prix Réduits
artist: Ploz

1901 Evian
Chemins de fer Paris-Lyon-Méditérranée
artist: Henri Ganier Tanconville

1902 Gorges du Fier Près Annecy
(Artist unknown)

1903 Cie. Gle. de Navigation sur le Lac Leman
artist: Anton Reckziegel

c1903 Grottes de la Balme, Dauphiné
PLM
artist: Marce Jacquier

1905 Paris Lyon  Mediterranee
Sens
artist: Henri Polart

c1905 Les Vosges, Vallée de Gérardmer
artist: Frédéric Hugo d'Alesi

c1905 Littoral de la Méditterranée - P.L.M.
artist: Henri Ganier Tanconville

c1905 Paris - Lyon - Méditerranée
 Mont Blanc, Chamonix
artist: H.J

c1905 Royat
Chemins de fer de Paris. Lyon. Méditerranée
(artist unknown)

1906 Chemin de fer Électrique du Valais à Chamonix
artist: Jean-Édouard Ravel

1907 La Creuse, La Sedelle à Crozant
Chemin de fer d' Orléans
artist: Coulange Lautrec

c1910 Auvergne
 Chemin de Fer d'Orléans
artist: Moreno

c1910 Bretagne
Chemin de Fer d'Orléans
artist: Moreno

c1910 Cauterets
Chemins de Fer d'Orléans & du Midi
artist: Constant Duval

c1910 Gèneve et Le Mont-Blanc
artist: Mario Borgoni 

c1910 Laon
Chemins de Fer du Nord et de L'Est
artist: Carot


Wednesday 21 December 2022

Willem de Kooning - part 10

Willem de Kooning in his East Hampton studio, New York
photograph by Kenneth Tyler
National Gallery of Art, Australia

Willem de Kooning (1904 – 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried.

In the years after World War II, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to as abstract expressionism or "action painting", and was part of a group of artists that came to be known as the New York School. Other painters in this group included Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Nell Blaine, Adolph Gottlieb, Anne Ryan, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still, and Richard Pousette-Dart. De Kooning's retrospective held at MoMA in 2011–2012 made him one of the best-known artists of the 20th century.

For a more comprehensive biography of de Kooning see part 1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 - 9 also.

This is part 10 of a 10-part series on the works of Willem de Kooning:


c1980 Figure
black and brown charcoal, with smudging, on cream wove paper 28 x 21.4 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1980 Untitled (Head)
ink on paper 60.7 x 48 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1980 Untitled
ink on paper 21.5 x 27.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1980 Untitled
ink on paper 21.6 x 28 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1981 Untitled I
oil on canvas 223.5 x 195.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1981 Untitled II (Pirate)
oil on canvas 223.4 x 194.4 cm
MoMA, New York
Willem de Kooning
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1981 Untitled III
oil on canvas 223.4 x 195.6 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1981 Untitled
charcoal and oil on vellum 174 x 107.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1982 The Man and the big Blonde
colour lithograph 54 x 68.1 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1982 Untitled III
oil on canvas 203.2 x 177.8 cm
MoMA, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1982 Untitled IV
oil on canvas 177.8 x 203.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1982 Untitled V
oil on canvas 203.2 x 177.8 cm
MoMA, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1982 Untitled XVIII
oil on canvas 203.2 x 177.8 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1982 Untitled XXII
oil on canvas 195.5 x 223.5 cm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1983 Untitled VII
oil on canvas 203.2 x 177.8 cm
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1983 Untitled XII
oil on canvas 203.2 x 177.8 cm
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
 
1983 Untitled XIII
oil on canvas 177.8 x 203.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1983 Untitled XIV
oil on canvas 177 x 203.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1983 Untitled XIX
oil on canvas 195.5 x 223.5 cm
SFMoMA
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New Yor
k

1983 Untitled XXXIX
oil on canvas 177.8 x 203.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1983 Untitled XLVIII
oil on canvas 223.5 x 195.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1983 Untitled
oil on canvas 195.6 x 223.5 cm
National Gallery of Australia
© Willem de Kooning. Licensed by ARS & VISCOPY, Australia

1983 Woman
charcoal on vellum 147.3 x 101 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
 
1984 Milkmaid
oil and charcoal on canvas 195.5 x 223.5 cm
SFMoMA
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1984 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
The Arion Press, San Francisco
 lithograph 48.8 x 48.8 cm (image)
.

1984 Untitled 
oil on canvas 195.6 x 223.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1985 Untitled II
oil on canvas 203.2 x 177.8 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1985 Untitled III
oil on canvas 195.6 x 223.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1985 Untitled IV
oil on canvas 203.2 x 177.8 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1985 Untitled V
oil on canvas 195.6 x 223.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1985 Untitled VI
oil on canvas 195.6 x 223.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1985 Untitled VII (Rider)
oil on canvas 177.8 x 203.2 cm
MoMA, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1985 Untitled XII
oil on canvas
© 2021 The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1985 Untitled XIII
oil on canvas  203.2 x 177.8 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1985 Untitled XX (Rider)
oil on canvas 177.8 x 203.2 cm
© 2021 The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1985 Untitled
oil on canvas 195.6 x 223.7 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1986 Quatre Lithographie: One Plate
colour lithograph 71.5 x 62.8 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1986 Quatre Lithographie: One Plate
colour lithograph 72 x 63 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1986 Stowaway
oil on canvas 203.2 x 177.8 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1986 Untitled
colour lithograph on cream wove paper 71.1 x 62.2 cm (sheet)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
© 2020 The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1986 Untitled II
oil on canvas 223.5 x 195.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1986 Untitled VI
oil on canvas 195.5 x 223.5 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1986 Untitled VII
oil on canvas 195.5 x 223.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1987 Quality of a Piece of Paper
oil on canvas 177.8 x 203.2 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1987 Sitting Figure (from the Leda and the Swan series)
bronze with gold patina 13.9 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1987 Untitled
oil on canvas 203.7 x 178.3 cm
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1987 Untitled
oil on canvas 223.5 x 195.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1988 Untitled
oil on canvas 195.5 x 223.5 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

n.d. Untitled (Two Women)
lithograph 65.4 x 76 cm (sheet)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
© 2020 The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

n.d. Untitled (Woman)
oil and pencil on paper 47.7 x 35.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

n.d. Untitled
oil and charcoal on paper 61 x 48.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

n.d. Untitled
oil and newsprint on canvas 30.2 x 22.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

n.d. Untitled
oil transfer on paper, mounted on paper, mounted on fibreboard 62.4 x 49.7 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York