Poster advertising an exhibition of Art Nouveau arranged by S. Bing at the Grafton Gallery, London. Design by Sir Frank William Brangwyn. England, 1899.

‘L’Art Nouveau'; Poster advertising an exhibition arranged by S. Bing of modern French art, glass by Louis C. Tiffany, bronzes by Constantin Meunier, etc., at the Grafton Gallery, London, May – December 1899; Poster depicts a stylized female figure at left in profile facing right wearing a flowing gown and holding a pot, with a line of factories in the distance at the top of the image. Text on the right side of the image; Colour lithograph, bronze and mauve on buff-coloured paper; Signed ‘F. Brangwyn’.

S. Bing’s shop in Paris, L’Art Nouveau, gave its name to the style. This poster is reproduced on p.275 of Edgar Wenlock’s ‘L’Art Nouveau at the Grafton Galleries’, in Vol.2 of The Poster, January to June 1899.

This poster was for Siegfried Bing’s exhibition L’Art Nouveau, which was held at the Grafton Galleries in London in 1899. Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) provided a bridge between the simple elegance of the Arts and Crafts Movement and the more dynamic character of Art Nouveau. He became one of the most prominent of the British designers associated with Bing’s Paris gallery, the forum of Art Nouveau. Bing held exhibitions at the Grafton Galleries in 1897 and 1899. On both occasions he used posters designed by Brangwyn.

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