BOURDELLE, Antoine
Four different artists or designers created poster designs for the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (commonly known as the Art Deco Exposition) held in Paris in 1925. Of the four poster designers, Antoine Bourdelle was the most well-known with the longest artistic career. Primarily a sculptor, Bourdelle’s poster design for the Art Deco Exposition features a winged figure holding a bow atop an ox. The phrase “Par Labeur & Par Genie” (By Labor & By Genius) is inscribed within the image. Bourdelle created many works with mythological themes and monumental sculptures, and in this work, he uses a color palette of brown and orange to express a mythological world.
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