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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JULES CHERET (1836-1932) LES COULISSES DE L'OPERA. 1896. 931/2x33 inches. Imprimerie Chaix, Paris. Condition B+: pinholes in top and bottom margins; minor losses, tears and creases in margins; repaired tears in image; horizontal folds. Two sheets. Sagot, in his catalogue, wrote that this was "a superb poster that is considered by some amateurs to be the key work of Cheret." Advertising a show called "Backstage at the Opera," Cheret gorgeously evokes a ballet, positioning the two ballerinas in the foreground and the graciously rendered company dancers in the background, in a bath of sensuous colors. Cheret's ability to organize such a complicated scene in a long narrow format is extraordinary. The show itself, at the Musee Grevin, Paris' wax museum, can't possible have been of as high artistic merit as such a poster warranted! Broido 467, Maitres 37, DFP II 210, Reims 315, Wine Spectator 10.
