Description
Charles Gir’s 1927 poster for Venise promotes André Mouëzy-Eon’s three-act operetta, with music by Tiarko Richepin and lyrics by Albert Willemetz. Created for the Théâtre Marigny production in Paris, it stages a masked cavalier leaning over a reclining heroine beside the Venetian lagoon, with a gondolier, lantern and distant campanile completing the scene.
Printed by H. Chachoin for Max Eschig et Cie, the lithograph combines theatrical hand-lettering, sweeping costume forms and saturated colour with a romantic late-1920s Art Deco sensibility. Gir’s signature and the date 1927 appear in the stone at lower left.
