Georges Lepape
Stylized Art Nouveau fashion illustrations
Georges Lepape is a French poster artist, illustrator, and fashion designer. Lepape’s work incorporates orientalist motifs with fluid lines, bold coloration, and graphic stylizations that are evocative of the Art Nouveau movement, which includes Alphonse Mucha, Erté, Gustav Klimt, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The artist’s body of work spans across media, and he has contributed to the design of book covers, playbills, magazines, advertisements, and textiles. Born June 26, 1887 in Paris, France, Lepape studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at the age of eighteen. In 1910 he began his iconic collaboration with artist and fashion designer Paul Poiret. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris held the first major exhibition of his work in 1920, and six years later he would be invited by publisher Condé Nast to work in New York. While there, he produced iconic cover art for Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines.
Artworks by this artist
- Travesti 1912
- Le Verger 1912
- Les Hermines 1912
- Le Festin 1912
- Sur Les Marches Du Jardin 1912
- Dieu! Qu’il Fait Froid – (God! It’s Cold – ) 1913
- La Toilette 1912
- Les Coussins 1912
- La balançoire 1912
- Les Rideau Qui Secarte 1912
- Les Papillons 1912
- Woman in a Turban 1911
- L’Entracte 1912
- L’Habit Persan 1912