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119
LE MATIN. 1893.
Chaix, Paris.
321/2x231/4 inches.
- Notes: In 1893, the French newspaper Le Matin published the memoirs of Father Faure, a chaplain at La Roquette, a Paris prison, who had been present at the execution of many prisoners. Lautrec's poster to help sell the newspaper is a dramatic image with the guillotine on the left, unsettlingly placed at the viewer's eye-level, and the terrified face of the prisoner being led to his death which contrasts with the nonplussed visage of the executioner. A row of mounted soldiers encloses the image with a diagonal. Lautrec depicted the central figure, Father Faure, in the middle of the image, correctly reasoning that the reading public would be more intrigued by a disturbing image of a condemned man than a large image of a priest! The violence of the scene is augmented by the red and white color scheme.
- Condition: Condition A-: unobtrusive horizontal folds. Matted and Framed.
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