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Mauzan Tintoreria A. Prat 1927 | Vintage Advertising
Mauzan Tintoreria A. Prat 1927 | Vintage Advertising
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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 diagonal, the face pale and theatrically exaggerated. Below the figure, a small classical building sits at an angle in the lower left, and across the base bold slab-serif type delivers the message: S.A. TINTORERIA A. PRAT.
Achille Lucien Mauzan designed this poster in 1927 at his Mauzan-Morzenti Agency in Milan, commissioned by a Spanish dry-cleaning and dyeing company. Mauzan (1883-1952) had absorbed Cappiello's core device, the single vivid figure against a dark field, and extended it into something more explicitly theatrical. The clown's rainbow-striped costume and the arc he leaps over are one continuous visual gesture: the spectrum of dyes a tintoreria could produce, made kinetic. It is among the liveliest of his Italian period works, produced the year he closed his Milan studio and left for Buenos Aires.
Reproduced from a high-quality restoration of the 1927 lithograph, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper using archival pigment inks. The design sits naturally in spaces where Art Deco commercial graphics are taken seriously, from a curated gallery wall to a single statement position in a dining room or office.
