Colour lithograph
160 x 120cm
1929
An advert for a razor blade, in which the precision of the object is evoked through the precision of the design and composition. The razor blade is enlarged to be the central focus of the composition. It is shown as if shaving the poster itself, a sweep of clean white across the semi-abstracted blue face. The face is heavily stylised in the manner of a Brancusi sculpture. Eyes are reduced to a white brush of colour, and the elongated nose recalls the experiments with figural abstraction popular in Paris at the time.