Pal

Year: 1894

Size: 24 5/8 x 37 1/2 inches

Condition: B / stains at edges

Alas, no one seems to have found it consequential enough to record the melodramatic goings-on during the run of Mam'zelle Carabin at the Bouffes-Parisiens. It seems to have been an operatic evening filled with teary-eyed reconciliation, dastardly deeds, and a high-spirited international costume fête whose title translates—somewhat surprisingly, given the poster's vignettes—to Miss Medic. This is actually one of two posters Pal created for the play that were surely just what the doctor ordered. Rare!

Size: 43 1/4 x 59 1/2 inches

Condition: B / slight tears at folds and edges

A dramatic scene unfolds as Carmen sacrifices herself for her city of Santiago in this novel by Rodolphe Bringer. While the French journalist, newspaper editor, and writer of crime novels and children's books was quite prolific, no information exists on this particular endeavor—aside from Pal's visual relic.

Year: ca. 1898

Size: 24 x 32 1/2

Condition: B / Slight tears at folds and edges

This preliminary design by Pal would later become the canvas for several other  promotions for the infamous music hall; the blank space at right would be used for details on specific performances. But without the additional text, it's a lovely scene of a lithe dancer caught mid-pirouette.

Year: 1898

Size: 44 5/8 x 63 1/2 inches

Condition: B+ / unobtrusive folds

Pal announces the inaugural issue of this liberal newspaper specializing in political and literary coverage with an image of an unfettered Marianne, holding an outsize writer’s quill—the weapon of choice of literati everywhere—that serves as the flag staff for the French tricolor.

Size: 30 3/4 x 92 3/4 inches

Condition: B-/ restored tears at folds

For a woman so stately and a poster so much larger-than-life, one would think that this Louisa de Korr was quite an important lady—but, sadly, no information exists about her that we could find. In any case, it's a fantastic depiction by Pal. This is a two-sheet poster.

Year: 194

Size: 31 x 92 1/2 inches

Condition: B / slight tears and stains, largely at seam.

Presented in a detailed Edwardian gown and silver hair, this otherwise youthful performer stands next to an upright piano. The contemporary critic Charles Hiatt noted that this poster “is of an elegance to which Paléologue does not often attain, and would be distinguished in almost any collection of posters” (p. 145).

Size: 45 1/2 x 62 3/4 inches

Condition: A- / unobtrusive folds

A toy and gift sale is announced by the Nouveau Bazar department store. Pal creates, as usual, a beautiful scene in the romantic realism style he favored.