This design for a marionette troupe operating under the name of Jacques Chenais’ Wooden Comedians is a marvel of understatement and grace. With the masked commedia dell’arte blockhead acting as the company’s sole ambassador to the public, Colin’s mischievous implications can’t help but make one wonder what this puppet has stumbled across. And the lovely concert of simple curves and linear elements creates an undeniably satisfying graphic tension.
Imp. S. A. Courbet, Paris
literature: PAI-XXXV, 278