Woman in Red Bathing Suit, Cover — Hérouard

A vivid wartime cover pairing a fashionable bather with a flamingo, in La Vie Parisienne's playful 'fantastical zoology' vein.

Drawn by Chéri Hérouard. Published in La Vie Parisienne, 56ᵉ Année, N° 28. Paris, 13 July 1918.

Chéri Hérouard was a defining cover artist of La Vie Parisienne, often pairing fashionable women with exotic birds and animals to flatter the magazine's readers as creatures of equally rare plumage. Issued in the summer of 1918, this number leans on holiday spectacle even as the war approached its final months.

Chromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 37.9 × 28.9 cm. Very Good.