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Artist: PAUL COLIN (1892-1986) Size: 43 3/4 x 60 1/8 in./111.2 x 152.7 cm Paul Colin's life was immersed in that of the French music hall, beginning with his appointment in 1925 as decorator of the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, where he would launch a prolific career as a posterist, designer, painter, and illustrator. Around 1880, the enormous skating rink that ran from 15 rue Blanche to 16 rue Clichy was transformed into the famous dance-hall-cum-theater known as the Casino de Paris. Running around the entire hall was a grand balcony where the dance orchestra played until 10 p.m.; then entertainment took over the stage: dancers, singers, musicians, magicians, declaimers, balancing troupes, and animal acts, every sort of artiste imaginable. "For a couple of years, Mistinguett and Josephine kept trading places at the Casino. Thirteen months after it opened, Miss Paris Qui Brille closed, and Josephine came back in La Joie de Paris....The poster for the new production, made by Paul Colin, showed three naked, dancing Josephines" (Josephine, p. 176). This is in every way a most spectacular maquette.