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During the 1910s and 1920s, Paris was a hotbed of artistic experimentation. The hierarchy of artistic mediums seemed to dissolve away as painters collaborated with dancers, fashion designers with decorative artists, and\u2014in the case of Sports et divertissements<\/i>\u2014 illustrators with musicians.<\/p>\n
The musical scores and illustrations seen here are reproductions of select pages of the folio Sports et divertissements,<\/i> which was commissioned by the publishing magnate Lucien Vogel in 1914.\u00a0 The twenty short musical scores created around the theme of \u2018sports and leisure\u2019 are the work of famed composer Erik Satie.\u00a0 The pochoir<\/i> \u00a0illustrations by one of the era\u2019s most sought-after illustrators, Charles Martin, merge music with fashion to reveal a glimpse into the lifestyle deemed modern and fashionable during the early twentieth century.<\/p>\n Although the project began in 1914, it would not be released until 1923.\u00a0 The years of World War I intervened.\u00a0 Many couture houses closed their doors as their male designers and\/or employees were drafted into the war effort.\u00a0 Some fashion magazines halted publication.\u00a0 The mood in Paris turned sober as the realities of war hit home; it was not the right time for the light-hearted frivolity of\u00a0Sports et divertissements.<\/i><\/p>\n By the 1920s however, joie de vivre<\/i> had returned to Paris.\u00a0 The Jazz Age brought an almost unbridled pursuit of luxury and pleasure.\u00a0 Vogel, determined to make Sports et divertissements<\/i> a reality, returned to his friend Charles Martin and commissioned him a second time to create illustrations for the title.\u00a0 In the intervening nine years the fashionable silhouette had changed so much that the 1914 illustrations were no longer au current <\/i>!<\/p>\n Only 900 copies of Sports et divertissements<\/i> were ever made, but three different versions were created.\u00a0 All were printed on fine Hollande paper and the pochoir<\/i> \u00a0plates painstakingly colored by hand in the studio of one of the pochoir<\/i> \u00a0method\u2019s greatest practioners, Jean Saud\u00e9.\u00a0 The first version of the title is exquisitely rare\u2014only 10 copies were made; this version featured Satie\u2019s score alongside Martin\u2019s pochoir <\/i>illustrations from 1914.\u00a0 The second version, issued in an edition of 215, features the second set of twenty illustrations created by Martin in 1923.\u00a0 The third, and final, edition of Sports et divertissements<\/i> makes up the remaining 675 examples.\u00a0 These contain the entire score, but only one of Martin\u2019s colorful illustrations.<\/p>\n We recently acquired number 143 of Sports et divertissements<\/i>, making the images seen here part of the limited edition of 215 copies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the 1910s and 1920s, Paris was a hotbed of artistic experimentation. 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