A clown in rainbow stripes leaps over a rainbow, to sell dry-cleaning and dyeing.
Achille Lucien Mauzan (1883 to 1952) designed the poster in 1927 at his Mauzan-Morzenti Agency in Milan, for a dry-cleaning and dyeing company. The costume and the arc he jumps are one gesture in the same colours, which stand for the range of dyes the firm could produce.
He left for Buenos Aires in 1927.
On the poster
A clown in a costume banded yellow, orange, red, green and blue launches over a matching arc of the same spectrum on a pure black ground. One arm is raised high, the body is on the diagonal, and the face is pale and theatrically exaggerated. A small classical building sits at an angle in the lower left. Bold slab-serif type across the base reads "S.A. TINTORERIA A. PRAT" (A. Prat dry cleaners and dyers).
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.

