Authentic La Vie Parisienne 1921 Maurice Millière "La Première Cigarette" Back Cover Print

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An exceptional original back cover from the legendary French magazine La Vie Parisienne, featuring the celebrated illustration "La Première Cigarette" … Read more An exceptional original back cover from the legendary French magazine La Vie Parisienne, featuring the celebrated illustration "La Première Cigarette" ("The First Cigarette") by renowned French artist Maurice Millière. Part of the series "Les Petites Joies de L'Existence" ("The Little Joys of Life"), this charming and sophisticated composition depicts a fashionable young Parisienne enjoying her first cigarette of the day. Standing in an intimate boudoir setting, she is portrayed wearing a striped silk robe and stockings, surrounded by luxurious decorative accents that evoke the glamour and elegance of Paris during the Jazz Age.

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Publication: La Vie Parisienne
Artist: Maurice Millière (1871-1946, France)
Title: La Première Cigarette
Series: Les Petites Joies de L'Existence
Origin: Paris, France
Size: 10" x 13"
Particularity: Back Cover Page
Period: Art Deco, circa 1920s
Medium: Color lithographic print on paper
Subject: Parisienne, fashion, boudoir scene, social satire
Unframed
Suitable for archival matting and framing

La Vie Parisienne remains one of the most celebrated illustrated publications of the Belle Époque and Art Deco eras. Individual interior illustrations featuring fashionable women, cabaret culture, and Parisian social satire have become highly desirable decorative works, particularly when framed as standalone art pieces. La Vie Parisienne was a French weekly magazine founded in Paris in 1863 and popular at the start of the 20th century. Originally it covered novels, sports, theater, music and the arts. In 1905 the magazine changed hands and the new editor Charles Saglio changed its format to suit the modern reader. It soon evolved into a mildly risqué erotic publication. See less