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JULES ALEXANDRE GRUN (1868-1938) SCALA / LA REVUE DE LA SCALA. 1905. 31 1/2x23 inches. Ch. Verneau, Paris. Condition B+: repaired tears in margins, some affecting image; restoration in iamge. Grun was one of the key graphic artists of Montmartre. He worked for practically all the cabarets as well as for the music-halls. His style is immediately recognizable, consistently employing sensuous curvy girls, some less ladylike than others, generally accompanied by choice revelers, usually all a bit tipsy, happy and often licentious. The spirit of his posters are always naughty but good-natured. When it first began showing, "La Revue" (literally "review") was an end-of-the-year, satirical round-up of all the year's major events. For the review in 1905, Grun depicts the President (identifiable by his red cordon<>) watching a parade of silhouettes, cheekily marching under the legs of a charming young lady. One of them, of course, is looking up her dress. DFP III, 238.
