“La Garçonne”, mixed media, Sacha Zaliouk (1887-1971), 1927

Mixed media
“La Garçonne”
Dim. 58 × 46 cm

Popularised by Victor Margueritte’s novel, the garçonne of the Roaring Twenties dared to dress like a man and to smoke, as in this drawing by Sacha Zaliouk, published in 1927 in the satirical magazine Fantasio.
Kharbine Tapabor Collection

Biographical notes
Born in 1887 in Radomyshl, in the Russian Empire, Sacha Zaliouk settled in Paris around 1910 and belonged to the artists of the École de Paris. A painter and illustrator, after the First World War he contributed to Parisian magazines including La Vie Parisienne, Fantasio and Le Sourire. His stylised portraits and society scenes combine light satire with graphic modernity.