Gazette du Bon Ton, 1920 - No. 9, Pl. 65 : Les Neiges / Costume pour les sports d'hiver, en"agnella" de Rodier 1920

This print, called Les Neiges, or The Snows, was made in 1920 for the Gazette du Bon Ton by Maurice Leroy. I'm really drawn to the flat planes of color. It's so simple, just black, white and this pumpkin orange, but the shapes create a real sense of depth and movement. Can you imagine Leroy working on this? Maybe he's thinking about Japanese woodblock prints, playing with positive and negative space. It's like he's carving away at the image to find the most essential forms. Look at the way he's used these jagged lines to suggest the mountains and trees. There’s a real sense of the figure moving through the snow, like the artist is carving out a space for them to exist. It reminds me that art is always in conversation, artists borrowing and building on each other's ideas across time.