1942 Art Deco French Pochoir Print Fashion Illustration Bresse-Bugey, Homme des environs de Louhans, costume de fetes Regional Costume Dress Original Antique French Pochoir Print by Paul Georges Klein from book "Costumes Du Sud-Est: XVIIIe Et XIXe Siecles : Bresse, Dauphine, Comtat Venaissin, Comte De Nice, Lyonnaise, Provence, Savoie" by Paul Georges Klein ans Jean Perquelin. Published by Grenoble : Imprimerie Generale, 1942 The print is in a good condition for their age of over 80 years. It has been tipped in with the French District & date of costume shown underneath the lift up print. There is some creasing and rubbing to the brown backing pages but print itself is in a good condition and would look really nice matted and framed. Each Print measures approx. 6” x 9.25” and page size is approx. 10" x 12.5" Pochoir is a stencil-based printing technique popular from the late 19th century through the 1930’s, with its center of activity in Paris. It was primarily used by illustrators and designers to create patterns and architectural design prints. Was used during the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods and at the peak of its popularity in the early 20th century, there were as many as thirty graphic design studios in France using this technique, each employing up to 600 workers. The manual aspect of pochoir has been both one of its most valuable attributes and one of its greatest failures as a printing medium. It is both labor and time consuming, making it an expensive and slow process of printmaking. As a result, techniques such as lithography and serigraphy, mechanized in nature, replaced pochoir as a method of reproduction. Pochoir technique begins with the analysis of the composition, including color tones and densities, of a colored image. A craftsman known as a dйcoupeur would cut stencils with a straight-edged knife. Numerous stencils were designed as a means of reproducing an image. The stencils were originally made of aluminum, copper, or zinc but eventually the material of choice was either celluloid or plastic. The stencils created by the dйcoupeur would be passed on to the coloristes. Along with the transition of stencil materials, there was a shift away from the use of watercolor towards the broad, soft, opaque layers of gouache. The technique was further refined in an effort to create the most vivid, accurately colored reproductions. The coloristes applied the pigments using a variety of different brushes and methods of paint application to create the finished pochoir print. Pochoir was used by artists, in conjunction with other mediums such as engraving, lithography, or photography, as a means of adding color to a print. Each print is unique because it is done by hand and each remains vivid in both tactile and visual sense. Some artists that used pochoir as a printing technique include Man Ray, Henry Matisse, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Fernand Lйger, or Sonia Delaunay. ? Please be advised that due to pandemic, potential shipping delays are possible!! ? Pictures are part of the description and reflect the current state of the article. The real color of the item may be slightly different from the pictures shown on website caused by many factors such as brightness of your monitor and light brightness. ? Shipping: Standard domestic and international shipping. We are more than happy to combine purchases. We ship via registered airmail with the tracking number within 72 hours of receipt of cleared payment. ? Please keep in mind that shipping takes 3-7 weeks to the USA and 10-20 days to Europe. ?Please note that any returns, insurances or customs duties levied are the responsibility of the buyer. Customs can cause delays with your shipment which the seller has no control over. Please consider such delays when making your purchase. ? Returns: If you are not happy with your item, please return it to us in its original packaging within 14 days. Return shipping must be paid for by the buyer. Refund of purchase price will be made through Paypal.