Bardócz, Árpád. Rozsa/Szucs. Ca 1915. Budapest. Color lithograph, 38 1/2 x 25"
BIO: Bardócz Árpád 1882-1938. Bardócz was a graphic artist and painter, active between the 1910’s and the 1930’s.
His posters show the popular Art Noveau style of the period. They are based on sophisticated, elegant drawing. Bardócz usually used flat-like shapes and decorative lines, with few intensive colors. His posters often utilize humor and caricature.
He designed many commercial posters in the 1910s. He prefered to use lovely women figures on the posters, mainly well dressed metropolitan ladies. Besides posters, Bardócz designed every kinds of ephemera in this decorative Art Noveau style: invitation cards, covers, illustrations, etc.