Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦"Le Bon marché," Felix Vallotton, 1893.
Born in Lausanne, Vallotton (1865-1925) was part of one of my favorite art movements, the Nabis. Highly respected as a painter, he was also an accomplished woodcut artist, as we can see here.
This is one of a series of prints he made depicting everyday life in Paris, although often with a satirical and critical eye. Vallotton held strong leftist and anarchistic beliefs, and his art could be critical of class divisions, hypocrisies, and, as we have here, consumerism.
Le Bon marché is a real Paris department store, still in operation, and we see women descending on the fabric section in droves, while black-jacketed salesmen attend to them...or are they seducing them? Their poses can be seen in a suggestive light, especially the one couple sitting tete-a-tete.
From the Collection Pictet, Geneva.
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