George Barbier (1882
- 1932) was one of the great French illustrators of the early
20th century. Barbier was 29 years old when he mounted his
first exhibition in 1911. For the next 20 years Barbier led
a group from the Ecole des Beaux Arts who were nicknamed by
Vogue as "The Knights of the Bracelet". During his
career Barbier also turned his hand to jewellery, glass and
wallpaper design, wrote essays and many articles for the prestigious
Gazette du bon ton. In the mid 1920s he worked with Erté
to design sets and costumes for the Folies Bergère
and in 1929 he wrote the introduction for Erté's acclaimed
exhibition and achieved mainstream popularity through his
regular appearances in L'Illustration magazine.
|
