Original lithographic poster printed by Atelier Mourlot, Paris.

Produced for an exhibition at Galerie Louis Carré in the year of Dufy’s death, this poster depicts a municipal bandstand concert, a subject he returned to throughout his career. Dufy’s fluid line, rhythmic composition, and restrained palette convey the energy and social vibrancy of the scene, transforming a familiar civic event into a luminous, almost musical visual experience.

The hand-applied pasted-over date is particularly significant: it records an extension of the exhibition and serves as a tangible trace of the poster’s original use, linking it directly to its historical moment and reinforcing its status as an authentic, functional object rather than a purely decorative print.

Dufy (1877–1953) was a central figure in French modernism, bridging Fauvism, decorative arts, and printmaking. He consistently translated the spontaneity and lightness of his paintings into lithographs, capturing leisure, music, and social life with economy of line and rhythmic elegance.

Printed by Atelier Mourlot, Paris, this original lithograph demonstrates Dufy’s late style, where gesture, rhythm, and compositional control define both subject and medium, situating the work at the intersection of exhibition graphic and autonomous artwork.