Robert Bonfils "society Of Artists Decorators 1903-1923" Original Ink Poster Project

BONFILS (Robert) - "Société des Artistes Décorateurs 1903 – 1923". Original India ink heightened with colored gouache on tracing paper (230 x 156 mm) dedicated and signed by the artist lower left, framed piece. Slight crumpling of the paper in the right margin, very nice copy otherwise. This original work, due to the Art Deco artist Robert Bonfils, is a poster project for the 20th anniversary of the Society of Decorative Artists. It represents an elegant woman in a dress with a fan behind a large basket of flowers. Robert Bonfils (1886 – 1972) French illustrator, painter, engraver, lithographer and bookbinder in the Art Deco style. His 1925 poster announcing the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts remains seen as the symbolic image of the magnitude of the Art Deco movement as an artistic phenomenon (Cerio, Lord & Prentice, "Applauding Art Deco", Introspective Magazine, 2015). The Société des Artistes Décorateurs (SAD) association was created in 1901 by architects and decorators Guimard, Grasset, Dufrêne, Lachenal, Follot…, and the lawyer René Guilleré. Its aim is to promote quality French craftsmanship, artistic cabinetmaking and the latest industrial techniques. The Salon des Artistes Décorateurs was born in the process (first edition in 1904 at the Grand Palais). Both reached their peak at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in 1925, when the Art Deco style took hold. Recognized as a public utility in 1924, this association will last until 2008.