Cocaine (1926)
French Theatre Grande for for Cocaine, ca. 1926
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COCAINE. Rene Gaillard, 1926.
French Grande Theatre poster, linen backed, unframed: 63 x 47 in. (160 x 119 cm).
This theatre poster was designed by the French painter and illustrator René Gaillard for the five act play La Splendide by Louis Gouriadec, titled Cocaine. Although cocaine was legal in Paris at the time this poster was created, the grim and decadent images it shows hardly seek to glorify the drug. Gaillard lived and worked in Montmartre, Paris, and depicted some of the city's famous landmarks in this eerie poster.
This 1926 poster hardly ever surfaces.