George Barbier — The Ball of the Little White Beds | Art Nouveau Print

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George Barbier — The Ball of the Little White Beds | Art Nouveau PrintGeorge Barbier (18821932) was the supreme master of Art Deco fashion illustration a French artist whose images of elegant women in exotic gowns, Japanese influenced lacquer settings, and mythological tableaux defined the visual language of haute couture in the 1910s and 1920s. Contributing to the legendary Gazette du Bon Ton and producing book illustrations, theatre programmes, and prints of extraordinary refinement, he worked at the intersection of

harlequins

and textile design

and Turkey

His magazine work predated his shift to easel painting but shows the same commanding vision: minimal

A central figure at Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona and a major influence on the young Picasso

The Heart — are now among the most iconic and collected prints of the 20th century

Santiago Rusiñol (1861–1931) was the defining figure of Catalan Modernisme and one of the most celebrated Spanish painters of his generation

Ohara Koson (1877–1945) was the supreme master of kachō-ga — the Japanese art of bird-and-flower prints — and one of the most beloved names in the Shin Hanga movement

His chromolithographic plates of geometric patterns

Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931) is widely considered his masterpiece — a silent film made in the sound era

and the Normandy countryside

lapis lazuli

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