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EUGENE OGÉ (1869-1936) [CHOCOLATE GUERIN / BOUTRON.] 37 3/4x74 inches, 96x188 cm. Condition B+: recreated bottom margin; minor restoration and overpainting along vertical and horizontal folds; minor abrasions in image. Oge started his career as a lithographic draughtsman in the Charles Verneau printing plant. In 1894, after several years of anonymous work, he earned the right to sign his name to his art and went on to a long career as a successful commercial artist, designing over two hundred posters. His style was based on humorous and often crude caricatures of naughty children, people of the world in their native costumes, and his favorite device, pillorying royalty and politicians. This image of rowdy children scrambling for chocolate is likely the top half of a two-sheet poster. The image does not appear in the Bibliotheque Forney catalogue and is previously unrecorded.
![EUGENE OGÉ (1869-1936). [CHOCOLATE GUERIN / BOUTRON.] 37x74 inches, 96x188 cm.](https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/full//960\624960.jpg)
