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La Jeune Fille aux Joues Roses (The Young Girl with Rosy Cheeks)

· 1921

La Jeune Fille aux Joues Roses (The Young Girl with Rosy Cheeks)
This hand-colored pochoir print depicts a fashionable young woman modeling a winter hat by designer Camille Roger. The figure's stylized face—with exaggerated blue eyes, simplified features, and rouged cheeks—exemplifies Art Deco portraiture's geometric abstraction. Her decorative cloche hat, trimmed with ornamental shells and feathers, sits atop a dark band; she wears a striped collar suggesting modern tailoring. The bold red background isolates the subject in the commercial illustration tradition descending from 19th-century caricature and fashion plates. Such fashion journalism images, while promotional rather than overtly satirical, inherit the graphic economy and social observation of print satire's long history—reducing the figure to essential costume and type for immediate visual impact and commercial consumption.

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