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PAUL COLIN (1892-1985) WEEK END CIGARETTES / GOÛT ANGLAIS. 1933. 59x37 inches, 150x94 cm. Bedos & Cie, Paris. Condition B+: repaired tears, creases, abrasions and restoration at edges and along vertical and horizontal folds. This is one of the most inventive of Paul Colin's commercial posters. Against a grass-green background, suggestive of the leisure implied by the product's name, Colin shows an almost bird's-eye view of three people relaxing and enjoying their cigarettes. The persepctive, the colors and the use of the diagonal provide a very striking image. Colin may have been inspired by the similarity the motion of opening a hinged pack of cigarettes has with unfolding a deck chair. Colin 173, Crouse p. 220.
