Paul Berthon (1872-1909)

Aliases: Paul Louis Joseph Berthon; Paul Louis Joseph Berthow; Paul Berton; Paul Emile Berton

Professions: Painter

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  Paul-Émile Berton d. 1909 , Promenade au Jardin

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  POSTER: PAUL BERTHON (1872-1909). SALON DES 1

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  PAUL BERTHON (1872-1909). LES EGLANTINES. 1900. 18x25 inches, 47x63 cm. Chaix, Paris.

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  PAUL BERTHON (1872-1909) FOLIES BERGERE / LIANE DE POUGY. 1896.

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Paul Berthon Biography

(b Villefranche, Rhône, 1872; d Paris, 1909). French designer and lithographer. He began his training in Villefranche, where he studied painting, and in 1893 he moved to Paris, entering the Ecole Normale d’Enseignement du Dessin. There he became a pupil and disciple of Eugène-Samuel Grasset, the Professor of Decorative Arts, and was also influenced by Luc Olivier Merson. Berthon’s main output consisted of posters and decorative panels. However, he also produced bookbindings and furniture designs, both of which he exhibited at the Salon in 1895; designs for ceramics for Villeroy & Boch in the late 1890s; and a few designs for the covers of such magazines as L’Image (July 1897) and Poster (May 1899). His work is in an Art Nouveau style, and he adopted that movement’s plant and figural motifs, especially the motif of the femme fatale , and also its long sinuous lines. These features can be seen in such works as the poster Leçons de violon (1898). Berthon distinguished himself in the production of large, coloured posters in the relatively new medium of chromolithography, some of which were printed under the direction of Jules Chéret by Chaix & Company.

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