LEON LEBEGUE (1863-1944) SALON DES CENT / 13e EXPOSITION. 1895. 193/4x251/4 inches. A. Barret. Condition B+: creases in margins and image. Hand signed and numbered. Lebegue, who got his start by studying academic painting, became a prolific illustrator, both for books and magazines. This poster is a comic allegory of an artist's life in the gay 90s, featuring an absurd yet joyful can-can line of a sculptor, a model, a painter and an articulated mannequin carrying a painting under his arm. Salon des Cent p. 32, Neumann p. 56.
