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Le Voyage imaginaire
A bank clerk dreams his way into a kingdom of fairies, and the poster follows him there.
What
A French affiche of 1926 for René Clair's fantasy Le Voyage imaginaire, signed by the caricaturist and poster designer Bécan.
Why
Clair had come out of the Paris avant-garde with Entr'acte and was working out how to fold surrealist play into commercial comedy. Bécan's poster shows the trade meeting that experiment halfway — recognisably a comedy sheet, but with the dream logic left in.
Notice
Bécan's line is a newspaper caricaturist's, quick and elastic; it makes the fantasy read as funny rather than eerie.
“The avant-garde slipping quietly into the neighbourhood cinema.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Le Voyage imaginaire (1926), dir. René Clair
- Country / studio
- France
- Designer
- Bécan
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- French affiche, 1926
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈1.7×) of the surviving archival scan (original 766×1023px). The upscale raises resolution only — the design is unaltered, and the paper’s folds and age are the artifact’s own.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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