Josephine Baker and LA Revue Negre: Paul Colin’s Lithographs of Le Tumulte Noir in Paris, 1927

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An artist’s portfolio of forty-five lithographs–first published in 1927 and repackaged here with a new introduction–captures the African-American spirit all through the Jazz Age that took France by storm after World War I. Original. 11,000 first printing. QPB Main.
When graphic designer Paul Colin published a limited edition of lithographs he’d made of dancer Josephine Baker and her revue in Paris in 1927, the French fascination with American jazz musicians and dancers used to be at its peak–and the 500 hand-colored copies quickly sold out. The 45 lithographs collected under the title Le Tumulte Noir (the book’s notes list uproar, frenzy, sensation, brouhaha, and craze a few of the conceivable translations for the word tumulte) include a dynamic sketch of Baker in her famous banana skirt, a chalklike drawing of a jazz band in full swing, a feather-bedecked woman dancing within the rain, an interracial flapper couple kicking up their heels, and other images that capture the joie de vivre of the era. Henry Louis Gates Jr. introduces this edition of the lithographs with an essay that reminds readers of the haven African Americans found in France at a time when overt racism and bigotry were rampant in the US. He then maps the wild success the brand new musical form jazz, and its beloved interpreter Baker, achieved there. Colin’s lithographs are faithfully reproduced in the similar size and vertical orientation of the unique edition with just the 3 colors he employed, the unique title page, and Baker’s own handwritten forward to the work.

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