Children are born from cabbages by Redon, fan for the Carlton Hotel London, 1913
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Children are born from cabbages by Redon, fan for the Carlton Hotel London, 1913
Advertising fan for the Carlton Hotel and Restaurant in London.
Wooden fan and paper leaf printed with an image of a woman watering a field of cabbages from which children are emerging.
This humorous illustration is the work of the French painter and caricaturist George Redon (1869–1943) and likely refers to the French nursery rhyme Savez-vous planter les choux [ Do you know how to plant cabbages?] , which alludes to the myth of babies being born from cabbages.
Signed and dated George Redon 13 and inscribed on the reverse July 13th, 1914
Good condition
H: 23 cm
Wooden fan and paper leaf printed with an image of a woman watering a field of cabbages from which children are emerging.
This humorous illustration is the work of the French painter and caricaturist George Redon (1869–1943) and likely refers to the French nursery rhyme Savez-vous planter les choux [ Do you know how to plant cabbages?] , which alludes to the myth of babies being born from cabbages.
Signed and dated George Redon 13 and inscribed on the reverse July 13th, 1914
Good condition
H: 23 cm
