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1914 fashion plate illustrating evening gown by Jeanne Paquin

Title: "La Fontaine de Coquillages, Robe du soir de Paquin" ("The Shell Fountain, Evening gown by Paquin")

George Barbier is one of the defining artist-illustrators of Art Deco, the school of visual arts, architecture and design that took its name – an abbreviation for Arts Décoratifs – from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris in 1925. Born into a well-to-do family in Nantes in western France, Barbier studied at the Ecole Régionale du Dessin et des Beaux-Arts and made his entrance into the Nantes art.

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1914
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Gazette du Bon Ton No.3, Plate 27.
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