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 1-5 also.
This is part 6 of a 7 part series on the works of Paul Colin:
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| 1960s early Les Beatles colour lithograph mock-cup for a potential French release of an early Beatles record 30 x 30 cm |
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| c1960 Loterie Nationale, Grand Prix de Paris colour lithograph 60 x 39 cm |
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| c1960 Dancing Couple gouache 83 x 62 cm |
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| c1960 Bruxelles Cœur du Marché Commun (Brussels Heart of the Common Market) Sabena airlines colour lithograph 90 x 60 cm |
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| 1962 Le Vie Parisienne colour lithograph 68.5 x 54 cm |
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| 1965 Liberation of the Concentration Camps colour lithograph 75.5 x 56.2 cm |
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| 1966 Carole Bruneau w'en Occupera... (Carole Bruneau will take care of it) colour lithograph 230.2 x 156 cm |
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| 1966 Loterie Nationale, Grand Prix de Paris colour lithograph 40 x 29 cm |
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| 1966 The lion and the wolf colour lithograph 38 x 28 cm |
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| c1970 / 1928 Tabarin, Menu design originally created in 1928 to advertise the home to the cancan, the Bal Tabarin colour lithograph 63 x 47.3 cm |
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| 1971 Haute de Cagnes ou la Joie de Vivre (Haute de Cagnes or the Joy of Living) colour lithograph 115 x 75 cm |
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| 1973 XXX° Salon Populiste, Paris perdu et hommage a Paul Colin (Populist Salon, Lost Paris and Tribute to Paul Colin) colour lithograph 60.5 x 39 cm |
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| 1983 View of Schöneberg oil on canvas 50 x 65 cm |
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| 1983 Tabarin colour lithograph 75 x 53 cm |
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| 1989 or before, General De Gaulle painted plaster model 30.4 x 13.3 x 8.2 cm |
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| 1995 On the Piano colour lithograph 69.8 x50.1 cm |
Note: Dates were not found for the remainder of this series:
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| At the Dentist ink on paper 23 x 32 cm |
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| Assimil la méhode facile (Learn the easy method) language course colour lithograph 159.6 x 117.7 cm |
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| Année Mondiale du Réfugie (World Refugee Year) colour lithograph 157 x 137.5 cm |
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| Aerolineas Argentinas (Argentine Airlines) colour lithograph 100 x 62 cm |
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| Abstraction sur fond Bleu-Jaune (Abstraction on a Blue-Yellow background) oil on canvas 50 x 40.5 cm |
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| Bouquet of Flowers oil on canvas 61.5 x 50 cm |
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| Baigneuse dormant (Sleeping bather) charcoal and stumping 49 x 64.5 cm |
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| Bagnoles de L'orne; Station Thermal (Bagnoles de L'orne; Therma Spal) colour lithograph 106 x 61 cm |
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| Colour & Design gouache on board 50.5 x 40.6 cm |
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| Cigarettes Tigra colour lithograph 327 x 244 cm |
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| Chéri! ink & stumping sketch 33 x 23 cm |
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| Casino de Paris, Review mixed media 37 x 27.5 cm |
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| Dancer colour lithograph 31 x 39 cm |
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| Dancers pastel on tan paper 40.3 x 30.2 cm |
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| Dancer with a banana skirt (Josephine Baker) colour lithograph 67 x 48 cm |
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| Donnez Aujourd'hui Recevoir Demain (Give Today Receive Tomorrow) colour lithograph 59 x 40 cm |
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| Dante N'avait Rien (Dante saw nothing) ink & wash 20 x 21 cm |
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| Elephant on a red background gouache 92 x 73 cm |
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| Eiffel Tower and Rose Chinese ink & watercolour 39 x 29 cm |
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| Flamenco Dancer gouache on wood panel 157.4 x 116.8 cm |
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| Figure Study pastel on paper. 59.5 x 47 cm |
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| Faites Regler Vos Phares (Have Your Headlights Adjusted) colour lithograph 114.4 x 75.3 cm |
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| High-Stepping Josephine (Baker) gouache and crayon on graph paper 49 x 31.8 cm |
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| Jazz Josephine (Baker) crayon, gouache and ink maquette 50 x 39.3 cm |
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| Jazz Band watercolour & gouache on paper 56.8 x 90.8 cm |
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| Jazz Band pencil & gouache on paper 70 x 82 cm |
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| Jazz Band and Ship gouache on cardboard 65 x 49 cm |
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| La création du Monde (The creation of the World) oil on canvas 60 x 73.5 cm |
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