Paul Colin (1892 Nancy, France - 1985 Nogent-sur-Marne, France) was a prolific master illustrator of Decorative Art posters. A professional artist, scenographer, graphic designer and theatre painter. He specialised in theatre sets, book design and costume design. During his lifetime he created over 1900 posters and worked in theatre for more than 40 years. He was influenced by Surrealism and Cubism, typically using very exaggerated shapes, striking colours and stylised art forms in his work. He used a large palette of colours to emphasise the energy and meaning conveyed by his subjects, and his art is strongly in the style of the Art Deco movement. Many of his most famous illustrations were created for Jazz Age music and theatre. His designs incorporate jazz elements, highly stylised or caricaturised humanoids are strangely juxtaposed with geometrically overlapping objects such as Cubist collages. His own background in painting and his love of theatre helped him to become one of the most important French poster artists of the 1920s and 1930s.
For more biographical information see part 1 & for earlier works see parts 1&2 also.
This is part 3 of a 7 part series on the works of Paul Colin:
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| 1930 Opollo, Jane Marna, Shanghai colour lithograph 58.3 x 39 cm |
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| 1930 Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadero, Paris colour lithograph 120.8 x 80 cm |
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| 1930 Marguerite Jamois colour lithograph 154.25 x 115.5 cm |
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| 1930 Liqueur Izarra colour lithograph 117.5 x 78 cm |
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| 1930 Design for Waterman fountain pens (not realised until 1937 - see below) watercolour 31 x 23.5 cm |
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| 1937 Waterman fountain pens colour lithograph 37 x 27 cm |
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| c1930 Damia colour lithograph 160 x 116.8 cm |
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| c1930 Combloux L'Hôtel P.L.M. et Le Mont Blanc colour lithograph 100 x 62 cm |
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| c1930 Chanteuse Réaliste gouache, ink, & crayon 62.2 x 43 cm |
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| c1930 Air Orient colour lithograph 49.5 x 31 cm |
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| c1930 Josephine & Jazz colour lithograph 28 x 21.3 cm |
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| c1930 Izarra white plaster sculpture 33 cm high |
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| c1930 Gham-Bo colour lithograph 58.4 x 38.1 cm |
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| c1930 Energo, Par Tous Les Temps original artwork (unrealised design, medium not given) 19.7 x 14.3 cm |
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| c1930 Grands Magasins de Nouveautés Paris - Montpellier colour lithograph 160 x 119.25 cm |
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| c1930 Nuit du Ciel, Olympia colour lithograph 58 x 37.6 cm |
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| c1930 Loterie Nationale colour lithograph 100 x 72.3 cm |
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| c1930 L’Age des Plastiques colour lithograph 158.7 x 116.2 cm |
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| c1930 Sylvie colour lithograph 158.75 x 114.9 cm |
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| c1930 Signoret colour lithograph 157.6 x 117.2 cm |
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| c1930 Pilotes d'Avions colour lithograph 120 x 80 cm |
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| c1930 Nude Woman study charcoal 74.2 x 89.5 cm |
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| 1930s Jean-Pierre Aumont photolithograph 61.5 x 11.5 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1930s Ces Messieurs Dames, Cora Madou two-colour lithograph 158 x 78 cm |
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| c1930s Russian Film Festival gouache and watercolour maquette 31.5 x 25.5 cm |
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| 1930s Arts Menagers colour lithograph 60 x 40 cm |
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| 1931 Yvonnet Guillet two-color lithograph 160 x 120 cm |
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| 1931 L'Ennemi dans le Sang (The Enemy in the Blood) colour lithograph 159.7 x 120 cm |
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| c1931 La Marche Coloniale gouache and ink artwork 35 x 27 cm |
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| c1931 Souscription Nationale La Dette... colour lithograph 59 x 40 cm |
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| 1932 La Joie de Paris, Casino de Paris, Josephine Baker colour lithograph 90 x 40 cm |
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| 1932 Casino de Paris, Josephine Baker colour lithograph 83 x 59 cm |
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| 1932 Ces Messieurs Dames colour lithograph 158 x 78 cm |
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| 1932 Ces Messieurs Dames maquette for the poster colour lithograph 116.6 x 77 cm |
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| 1932 Air Orient colour lithograph 100 x 62 cm |
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| c1932 Danse en Couleurs II colour lithograph 31.7 x 23.5 cm |
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| c1933 Pain Blanc = Sante (White Bread = Health) gouache on lined paper 157.4 x 118.3 cm |
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| c1933 Diada de la Dependenta (Day of the Dependent) colour lithograph 27 x 20 cm |
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| 1933 XIe Salon des Tuileries colour lithograph 118 x 80 cm |
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| 1933 L'R Aperitif Supérieur colour lithograph 149.2 x 97.8 cm MoMA, New Yorks |
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| 1933 Cigarettes Week End, Goût Anglais colour lithograph 148 x 95 cm |
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| c1934 Mary Ditrix, Disques Pathé colour lithograph 157 x 117.5 cm |
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| c1934 Fratellini Brothers study gouache, pencil & crayon on paper 69.2 x 40.5 cm |
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| 1935 Paris Book Fair artwork gouache on paper 119 x 78 cm |
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| 1935 Les Journees du Livre (Book Days) colour lithograph 60 x 39 cm |
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| 1935 Théatre Montparnasse, La Cavalière Elsa colour lithograph 40 x 30.1 cm |
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| 1935 Fetes de Paris colour lithograph 98.5 x 61.5 cm |
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| 1935 Serge Lifar colour lithograph 154.5 x 122.7 cm |
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| 1935 Peugeot accélération colour lithograph 159.7 x 118.4 cm MoMA, New York |
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| c1935 Lyvia Holos colour lithograph 160 x 118.7 cm |
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| 1936 Loterie Nationale, Grand Prix de Paris colour lithograph 56.2 x 37.2 cm |
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| 1936 La Tendre Ennemie (The Tender Enemy) colour lithograph 149.3 x 95.2 cm |
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