Paris is reduced to silhouettes, and the Grande Roue is the biggest of them. The Grande Roue de Paris was a 96 metre Ferris wheel built on the Avenue de Suffren for the Exposition Universelle of 1900. Designer unknown.
On the poster
Two allegorical figures in white classical drapery stand before the iron arc of the Grande Roue, scarves lifted in motion. The wheel fills the sky behind them in dark silhouette against a layered sunset of cerulean blue and cadmium orange. The Paris skyline shrinks to silhouettes at the horizon. Bold red hand-lettered display type fills the lower quarter of the sheet.
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.

