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.
In assessing Colin's piano posters, his first, and by far the best, was for Wiener et Doucet in 1925 - a soft, geometrically-balanced poster. In 1927, he took the piano to further Cubist abstraction in an exquisite poster for Lisa Duncan. In 1929 he used this comfortable Cubist approach again for André Renaud, a virtuoso who could play two pianos at the same time.
Lot n° 45
100cmx61,5cm
Non entoilée. Bon état, petites déchirures, légères traces d humidité.
Bibliographie : Jack Rennert. 100 posters of Paul Colin. Images Graphiques Inc New York. 1977. Page 100. Pierre Belves. 100 ans d affiches des chemins de fer. La vie du rail. 1980. Page 71, ill. 136. Alain Weill. Jack Rennert. Paul Colin Affichiste. Denoël. 1989. Page 129. Historique : Les contours flous d une locomotive, d un mécanicien et d un aiguilleur se superposent à un motif dormé de rails : du pur Colin classique pour les chemins de fer . (Alain Weill, Jack Rennert).
