A man contemplating a glass of wine, with a half-empty bottle in front of him, urged to consider the effect of his alcoholism on his children. Colour lithograph after G. Hage, ca. 1960 (?).

  • Hage, Gérard.
Date:
[1960?]
Reference:
675412i
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Description

Apparently based on photographs which are dramatised through emphatic colouring in grey, blue and red. Fillaut et al. describe this as an increasingly rare example of advertising through a negative stereotype

Publication/Creation

[France] : [publisher not identified], [1960?] (Paris (8, R. d'Alexandrie, Paris (2e) : Michels Fils)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 78.4 x 57 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Bois moins. Pense à tes enfants. Gérard Hage

References note

Thierry Fillaut et al., Quand la santé publique s'affiche: 50 ans, 50 affiches, 1945-1995, Rennes 1995, no. 27 (reads author's name as Mage instead of Hage)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 675412i

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