Arnold Constable
Artist
Jean Dupas
Date1928
MediumLithograph
Dimensions47 1/4 x 30 7/8 in. (120 x 78.4 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.7479
DescriptionLocated in downtown Manhattan, Arnold Constable was at one point the most luxurious department store in New York. Here, French artist Jean Dupas positions the institution as the tastemaker in fashion for the past, the present, and the future. Created the year before the Wall Street Crash, this poster represents the height of American Jazz Age glamour and excess. Dupas was one of the most prolific and notable painters and illustrators of the Art Deco period, not only providing numerous fashion plates for publications like Vogue, but also designing part of the interior of the SS Normandie, for a time the largest and fastest passenger ship ever built. Dupas’s version of Art Deco combined the weight of Fernand Léger’s Cubist figures with elements of Giorgio de Chirico’s Surrealist landscapes—an Italian-French hybrid that reflects his formal artistic education in both countries.On View
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