Art Deco

Umberto Brunelleschi, Scheherazade, La Guirlande, 1920.

Scheherazade is a major female character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights.

Created under the artistic direction of Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949), La Guirlande is one of the rarest of the Art Deco magazines. Early in his career, Brunelleschi produced fierce caricatures for L’assiette au beurre, a satirical weekly published in Paris from 1901 to 1914. He signed his drawings Aroun-Al-Raxid.

Carlos Masberger, Gente Menuda, 1935.

Carlos Masberger (1902-1969) illustrator of the 1930s Spanish children's magazine Gente Menuda, 1935.