{"product_id":"georges-pomies-1928-art-deco-theatre","title":"Georges Pomiès 1928 | Art Deco Theatre Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eA lean male figure in white wide-legged trousers and a dark jacket is rendered mid-turn, arms flung wide, a bold green diagonal stroke running across his torso from shoulder to hip. Behind and below him a second shadowed figure crouches in deep brown-black, a double-exposure device that layers two moments of the same performance into a single composition. The cream ground, the flat colour blocking, and the oversized slab letterforms at the base, 'POMIÈS' in varying scales, place this poster squarely within the French Art Deco approach to theatrical promotion: performer as kinetic abstraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorges Pomiès (1902–1933) was a Paris music-hall performer of genuine range: mime, dancer, singer and cinema actor, who performed at the Olympia and the Théâtre de l'Empire, worked with Jean Renoir and Jacques Prévert, and collaborated with the Groupe Octobre. This poster, illustrated by M. Faniellos and printed by F. Bouchet \u0026amp; Lakara, Paris, dates to 1928. It is one of the few surviving visual records of a performer who died at thirty-one, leaving behind a handful of film appearances and the recollections of collaborators who described his improvisational physicality as unlike anything else on the Paris stage at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe shadow device Faniellos employs is characteristic of the period's engagement with modern dance and performance: the Cleveland Museum of Art holds a 1929 Maurice Tabard photograph of Pomiès that uses the same shadow-and-dancer layering to convey movement. In the poster, the graphic equivalent, a dark silhouetted secondary figure, performs the same function through flat colour lithography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproduced from archival source as a fine art print on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper. The matte surface renders the flat colour blocks and cream ground with fidelity to the lithographic original. A considered addition for those interested in interwar French performance culture, Art Deco graphic design, or the Parisian avant-garde stage of the late 1920s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Poster Archives","offers":[{"title":"A4","offer_id":63909619597689,"sku":"VPA-11714-A4","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3","offer_id":63909619630457,"sku":"VPA-11714-A3","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2","offer_id":63909619663225,"sku":"VPA-11714-A2","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70cm","offer_id":63909619695993,"sku":"VPA-11714-50x70cm","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1","offer_id":63909619728761,"sku":"VPA-11714-A1","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100cm","offer_id":63909619761529,"sku":"VPA-11714-70x100cm","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0","offer_id":63909619794297,"sku":"VPA-11714-A0","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1139\/4937\/files\/Music-GeorgesPomies-ArtDecoDancer-1920s.jpg?v=1783449304","url":"https:\/\/vintageposterarchives.com\/products\/georges-pomies-1928-art-deco-theatre","provider":"Vintage Poster Archives","version":"1.0","type":"link"}