{"product_id":"ap_22554","title":"Les lutteurs 1898","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"128\" data-end=\"661\"\u003eIssued in 1898 as the third supplement to \u003cem data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"200\"\u003eLes Maîtres de l’Affiche\u003c\/em\u003e, Les Lutteurs captures a backstage moment with a group of wrestlers waiting to enter the ring. Ibels arranges the bulky figures on a raised platform beside a short flight of steps, their red sashes and singlets flashing against a field of graphite greys and leafy green. The drawing is quick and muscular—short, nervous strokes model the bodies; a restrained palette and flat color planes push the scene toward modern graphic design rather than naturalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"663\" data-end=\"1054\"\u003eUnlike the monthly advertising plates, the supplements were bonus prints issued to subscribers—self-contained artworks not tied to a specific product. As with the series, this sheet was printed in the smaller \u003cem data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"885\"\u003eMaîtres\u003c\/em\u003e format on wove paper and typically bears the publisher’s embossed blindstamp at lower right, with Ibels’s printed signature in the image—key details for collectors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1056\" data-end=\"1554\"\u003eHenri-Gabriel Ibels (1867–1936), sometimes called the “Nabi journalist,” moved between fine art and the popular press. A close associate of the Nabis, he brought their bold simplifications to posters, sheet-music covers, and café-concert imagery, and supplied incisive illustrations to avant-garde journals. His favorite subjects—performers, crowds, and working-class entertainments—are on full display here: the tense pause before spectacle, rendered with caricatural verve and modern economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1556\" data-end=\"1699\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1556\" data-end=\"1676\"\u003eA vivid, documentary slice of fin-de-siècle popular culture—and one of the liveliest non-advertising highlights of the\u003c\/em\u003e Maîtres \u003cem data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1699\"\u003esupplements.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSport - France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupplement The masters of the poster Pl. 3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePrinted by Chaix\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood condition\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ibels Henri-Gabriel","offers":[{"title":"40 x 29 \/ A","offer_id":50745394397511,"sku":null,"price":300.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/9275\/3081\/files\/AP_22554Insta2.jpg?v=1754065175","url":"https:\/\/galerie1881.fr\/en\/products\/ap_22554","provider":"Galerie 1881","version":"1.0","type":"link"}