Meubles 55 Bd Barbès Galeries Barbès

Colour lithograph

197 x 126cm

1927

For the commercial furniture company Galeries Barbès, Loupot developed a version of the humorous personnages that were frequently used in alcohol advertising at the time. Here the wood used for the furniture has been made into a character, the delivery man who leans on the lettering 55 as a support. Although Loupot always denied any influence of cubism on his work, the play of the woodgrain is reminiscent of the type of cubist joke developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque during their experimentation with collage in the early 1910s.