2nd Exhibition of painter-lithographers

Designed by Fernand-Louis Gottlob (1873-1935) was a French graphic artist whose caricatures appeared in many humorous magazines. Although Gottlob was a versatile graphic artist, his output included very few posters. Fortunately, we have this one for an exhibition in which he was one of the participants. Its a most interesting design, featuring a woman going through a display cradle of prints. The shadows on the front of her dress and the use of bright yellow in the background create the effect of backlighting and give the scene an air of intimacy it would otherwise lack (Wine Spectator, 108). And whether Gottlob planned it this way or not, the scarlet curtains and slender window mullions handily divide the top into areas that organize all the necessary information.