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Lot description
'Moulin Rouge' Original lithographic poster. Plate signed. Printer Chaix. (Encres Lorilleux. Rue Bergère, 20. Paris. 19.008.97.) 81 x 58.8 cm. The Carnavalet Museum - Histoire de Paris has another, larger-format copy of this poster, dated 1897, with inventory number AFF1939. Like this one, it is also signed in the plate: 'ROEDEL' and printed by Chaix. The poster we have here retains the unprinted part reserved for the specific announcement of events and their dates. Auguste Roedel was a French poster artist, designer, illustrator, and caricaturist who, at the age of just 20, began frequenting bars and cabarets and designing posters. In 1885, he was the first to represent the famous cancan dancer La Goulue. He worked as a caricaturist for newspapers such as 'Le Courrier français' or 'L'Estampe moderne,' and four of his creations were reproduced in 'Les Maîtres de l'affiche,' a monthly publication which was in existence between 1895 and 1900 and which aimed to showcase the most beautiful posters by leading French and foreign artists of the time. The magazine was created by the poster master Jules Chéret, with whom Roedel had worked since 1890, and who was the artistic director of the press that printed this poster: Imprimerie Chaix. Starting in 1895, he also became the official poster artist for the Moulin Rouge. He was the director of the magazine 'La Vache enragée,' launched by his friend and collaborator Adolphe Léon Willette. He died suddenly in 1900 due to absinthe abuse. Art Nouveau