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ORSI (1889-1947) PHILIPS. 62 1/2x46 inches, 158 3/4x116 3/4 cm. Phogor, Bagnolet, Paris. Condition B+: repaired tears, creases, abrasions and overpainting along vertical and horizontal folds and in margins and image; recreated upper margin. The expansive Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs writes of Orsi that "his name should have an important place in the history of posters on behalf of his innovative aesthetics." Benezit goes on to praise Orsi's sense of simplification, his bright colors and his creative ideas, and estimates that he designed as many as 1,000 posters. Despite this prodigious output, nothing else has been written on the artist and no portrait of him exists. Philips was one of his primary clients, and here, he illustrates the slogan which states how their light bulbs bring "the sun under your roof."
