Pour Le Dernier Quart D'heure

Title

Pour Le Dernier Quart D'heure

Subject

Color Lithograph, World War I

Description

"Heavily loaded French infantry march past General Foch over shell-pitted ground won from the retreating German army. The elegant vigor and neatness of the figures are barely compromised by a few touches of realism." (Paret, Persuasive Images, p.39)
translation: For the last quarter hour, help me!

Creator

Banque Nationale de Crédit, (client)
Serge Gourset, (graphic designer), (illustrator)

Source

Schreyer Poster Coll.
Image and original data provided by the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Publisher

Graphic Design Collection (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art)

Date

1918

Contributor

Charlotte Middleton and Emma Shachat

Rights

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Relation

Les Alsaciens et les Lorrains sont Francais

Format

Ink on paper, 1941 x 2856

Language

French

Type

Color Lithograph

Identifier

File name: cooper_poster52.fpx

Coverage

ca. 1914-1918

Files

ACOOPER_10310348064.jpg

Citation

Banque Nationale de Crédit, (client) Serge Gourset, (graphic designer), (illustrator), “Pour Le Dernier Quart D'heure,” Wheaton College Permanent Collection: Engaging with Objects, accessed May 18, 2024, https://wheatoncollectionclassuse.omeka.net/items/show/220.

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