JOB Collection
The JOB collection is a production of graphic works consisting of calendars, posters and postcards advertising the JOB (rolling papers), JOB rolling paper factory. Artistic in character, it was illustrated by renowned painters and poster artists, mainly during the Art Nouveau period. The owners of the JOB brand, grandchildren and allies of founder Jean Bardou, were industrialists and patrons of the arts. From 1895 until the World War I, Great War they enlisted the help of numerous artists, often their close friends, to advertise cigarette paper. Painters and illustrators representing the main artistic currents of the time, from Academic art, academic painter Paul Gervais (painter), Paul Jean Gervais to Catalan Modernist Ramon Casas, from Orientalism, orientalist Georges Rochegrosse to Montmartre humorist Charles Lucien Léandre, Charles Léandre, as well as Jane Atché, all contributed. This collection of 32 works became known to the general public through calendar and poster print ...
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