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AUGUSTE ROUBILLE (1872-1955) FANTASIO. 1906. 46x30 1/2 inches. R. Monod, Poirre & Co., Paris. Condition A-: repaired tears in margins. Le Rire<> was the most prominent and important of the French weekly humor magazines; it was published from 1894 until 1940. In 1906, they launched a new title called Fantasio<>. Roubille, who was working for Le Rire<> at the time, was asked to design the poster. A prolific illustrator and humorist, Roubille had a very personal graphic style which employed the use of rich, flat colors and broad-outlining which was well-suited to poster design. Amongst his posters he left two gems; Le Smart Carman<> and Spratt's Patent<>. In this previously unrecorded image against a flat, green background, Roubille represents "Mr. Prudhomme", a character invented by Henri Monnier (1805-1877) who was the universally recognized, visual incarnation of the triumphant, stupid, conservative bourgeois. Being tickled, as he is, by a sexy, curvy blonde with a feather Roubille provides an image which perfectly conveys Fantasio's<> editorial content as a sexy, light humored magazine, thumbing its nose at the establishment.
