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Programme covers for the Olympia Music Hall, Paris
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First edition. The front and rear cover of the May 1900 programme for the Olympia music hall in Paris. This beautiful piece of Nouveau artwork would have been the front and rear covers. Founded in 1888 by Joseph Oller, the creator of the Moulin Rouge, the Olympia was the oldest music hall in Paris, having opened originally as the "Montagnes Russes" (a roller coaster) before being renamed the Olympia in 1893. Printed onto slightly shiny paper stock, the sheet still has the crease and staple holes where it was originally folded. There is a split on the crease to the top couple of centimetres of the sheet. The verso is blank, but slightly darkened. We would have suspected that this was a later print of the cover, but for the crease and staple holes, and the price label being a blue sticker, rather than printed (which it would be if a later facsimile). Now tipped lightly onto a stiff paper / light card backing sheet. Would look beautiful framed. 25.5cm x 24cm. (each side is 25.5cm x 12cm). After, or at least influenced by the work of Jules Chéret, the French painter and lithographer widely called "the father of the modern poster," who created vivid advertising images for Paris's cabarets, music halls, and theatres including the Olympia, the Folies Bergère, and the Moulin Rouge. .
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