Featured La Metropole illustration art

Thrift shop find this week ….

It’s watercolor gouache, small text is cut and pasted, on white illustration board. Back side is grey, no marks.
19” x 13.75”


To me, this graphic tells us that the reader of La Metropole understands the world, naturally, like balancing a ball. The reader has become worldly, seated comfortably within the globe's stand.

The PosterMuseum.com says it’s circa 1960s and that’s very fare.

I may be as early as 1953. The artist pasted magazine text on the art. It’s part of a review that mentions, Oh, Men! Oh, Women!, Betsy von Furstenberg, and Tony Randall. The play ran from Dec 17, 1953 to Nov 13, 1954. It could have just been clipped from an old magazine laying around.

It could also predate or echo a 1963 Ball Chair.

I am assuming this is the publication …
https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=sn 95058174&searchType=1&permalink=y

The following links are of the same subject, of what look to be conceptual layouts on paper.
https://postermuseum.com/products/lion-on-globe?_pos=7&_sid=5a00804e4&_ss=r
https://postermuseum.com/products/man-with-fish?_pos=6&_sid=5a00804e4&_ss=r
https://postermuseum.com/products/man-with-globe?_pos=5&_sid=5a00804e4&_ss=r

I have not found any images of the publication La Metropole from the 50s or 60s. Has anyone come across this publication?

James.

 

Definitely inspired by Herbert Leupin. Thanks.
Here are other elements style borrowed from Leupin ...

 

nothing "inspired by". Leupin was coming from the graphic and art school in Basel. he was one of many masters for commercial art. and this was a bread and butter job. most probably the the newspaper is the Belgium Catholic newspaper from Antwerp that closed in 1974.
that's also the reason those craftsmen had no individual style. he made also the art basel logo and many more.

 

Thanks again for your input. It is valuable information. I am not seeing the same artist's hand in my example, but am hopeful. It is always interesting to hear other points of view.

I searched some more for that publication without result.

I offered it to my daughter-in-law and she wants it for her office. She works with international college-age exchange students. That makes me happy!

 

it would be better to tape a paper on the backside for future reference before getting it framed.
it was not thought as art then and it's absolutely normal that commercial art was not signed. nonetheless he and others were known worldwide for what goes under poster art today but was summed up under simple advertisement.
http://www.herbert-leupin.ch/02poster/poster-start.html

look the international awards and exhibitions.; might be something for the future.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Leupin

https://www.google.ch/search?source...AhUGlhQKHbGUCW8QjJkEegQIBxAC&biw=1184&bih=527

 

Logo for comparison.

Debora

 

I agree. Thanks Fid.

 

Debora, what is the link to that image?

 

just a shy question. did you castrate your google search to English ?

https://www.google.ch/search?q=la+m...WqyoUKHb0oAJgQ_AUoA3oECAIQBQ&biw=1184&bih=527

 

I'm not sure I understand the question but I searched Google Belgium and found it on Afbeeldingen.

Debora

 

Guilty as charged.

 

Publication background ...
https://nevb.be/wiki/Métropole,_La

 

wasn't for you.
but when you ask - it's useless to limit a research to one country or one language, because you loose too many results; especially when it's about a rare item.