Original pochoir print on laid paper. This image is a pochoir print titled "Larue, Dîner galant," created for the 1925 Falbalas & Fanfreluches almanac, a series themed around the Seven Deadly Sins. It depicts a scene from the Larue Restaurant, which was a fashionable establishment in Paris during the Jazz Age. Published by Paris, Lucien Vogel Original colour-printed lithograph on laid paper (c. 33 x 25 cm), with letterpress menu to verso. One of the most fashionable restaurants in Paris during the Jazz Age was Larue, which was renowned for its excellent cuisine that had a Russian twist. Pochoir, literally the French word for stencil, is both a centuries-old printmaking process and an important chapter in modern graphic arts. Pochoir came to refer to fine stencil printing in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It reached its zenith in Paris between 1910 and 1935 where it was used to decorate everything from elegant fashion magazines and limited edition illustrated books, to greeting cards, wallpapers and advertisements. Lucien Vogel, taking full advantage of the pochoir technique in 1912, launched the lavishly illustrated monthly fashion magazine, La Gazette du Bon Ton Condition is good. Yellowing paper. Some folds. Tears. Foxing. Stains. Light stains.