IRIBE (Paul). - Lot 310

IRIBE (Paul). Advertising poster for Le Témoin. If you don't like it, read Paul Iribe's Le Témoin France, February 1935 Dimensions : 2000 x 1500 mm Paul Iribe (1883-1935) was a designer, furniture creator, jeweller, film maker for Hollywood, and a figure of Art Deco. He even directed a small far-right magazine, Le Témoin. In February 1935, he had caricatures of the radical-socialist Édouard Daladier and the socialist Léon Blum posted in Paris, against a backdrop of Parliament, wearing Masonic insignia and a black hood. With this slogan: "If you don't like it, read Le Témoin." According to a monthly magazine of the time, Notre Temps, the Iribe Coco Chanel couple adheres to the anti-parliamentary league of Lieutenant-Colonel de La Rocque: "Mme Chanel being cross-fire - the luxury trade has its requirements -, M. Iribe is no less so." The press announces their marriage. Alas, Iribe dies of a heart attack during a tennis match in September 1935.