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Description: 72x32 inches. Draeger & Lesieur.
Condition A: unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds. Two sheets.
The Rose + Croix, founded by the art critic and mystic Joseph Peladan, was an art movement that sought a return to the beautiful and ideal in art based on the principles of Catholicism. The guidelines of the movement were so limited that it never spread farther than a tiny, ephemeral circle. Jane Abdy describes this poster as a symbol of all the Rose + Croix principles. "The two female figures symbolize purity and faith, and they climb a flower strewn staircase to heaven. Humanity, a luckless creature, who perhaps admired the impressionists, is chained inside a murky pool. The poster is coldly printed in blue on white paper." (Abdy p. 165). Schwabe, who designed only this one poster, was a successful decorator (he designed wallpaper), illustrator (for the works of Baudelaire and Maeterlinck) and a painter (he won a gold medal at the Salon des Artistes Francais.) Weill, p. 39 no. 54, Abdy p. 165, 3 Siecles no. 35, Modern, 27.