Charles Martin’s Le Chapeau en Porcelaine transforms a fashionable hat into the centerpiece of an almost abstract composition. A woman’s face emerges from beneath an elaborate, sculptural hat decorated with ribbons and geometric forms, while her simplified features and elongated proportions emphasize the striking modernity of the design. The turquoise, violet, lavender, yellow, black, and white palette is particularly effective, turning the hat and its surrounding pattern into a composition of bold shapes and contrasting color.
Published as Plate 49 of the September 1920 issue of Gazette du Bon Ton, the illustration belongs to Martin’s Modes et Manieres de Torquate series and exemplifies the sophisticated pochoir aesthetic of French fashion illustration. Martin reduces the figure and her surroundings to clean contours, flattened planes, and decorative pattern, creating an image that sits squarely within the emerging visual language of Art Deco.
🖨️ Print features:
– Made with museum-grade archival paper for excellent printing fidelity and vibrant color reproduction
– Paper weight: 189 g/m2
– For indoor use only
– Care instructions: If the print does gather any dust, you may wipe it off gently with a clean, dry cloth.
– Please note: Due to the production process of these posters, please allow for slight size deviations with a tolerance +/- 1/16″
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– Ships in a sturdy mailing tube, frame not included
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