Josephine Baker Disques Columbia Original Jazz Poster
- ca 1930
- Paul Colin
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22 x 30 1/2 inches ~ (55 x 76 cm)$11,500
- Linen backed
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself.
The price of this poster includes linen backing.
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This is one of the rarest of Paul Colin's posters featuring Jazz Age performers, and the last poster he designed for his muse, Josephine Baker.
It was issued to promote the recordings of songs from her nightclub act, "Paris qui Remue," which opened in September 1930. Colin uses one of his favorite tricks, placing Josephine's bust in a slanted frame. He surrounds her portrait with lithe, free-hand drawings of the dancer, like the ones he used in numerous publications beginning with her memoirs in 1927. The image is a tribute to Baker as both a singer and a dancer. Weill p. 209. Josephine Baker pl. 35.
