2 posters - Jean-Adrien Mercier - traditional French songs

2 posters from the 50s. Work of jean-adrien mercier who studied at the regional school of fine arts of angers under the direction of charles berjole, then at the national school of decorative arts in paris. Mercier began his career as a poster artist for cinema and advertising, before becoming artistic director of cointreau, his mother being a granddaughter of the founder of this company and daughter of the creator of the triple-sec cointreau. He designed many advertising posters, notably for cointreau, a brand on which he collaborated from 1925 to 1965. In the late 1930s, he began to illustrate children's stories. In 1961, the compagnie générale transatlantique commissioned him to decorate the children's playroom of the liner france, then to illustrate the menus of the compagnie générale transatlantique which were broadcast throughout the world...

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