Dufy continued to illustrate the new, modern leisure activities and lifestyles that had emerged with the development of electricity. Here he used the neon Electric Cooker advertisement from the famous poster by Jean Carlu, who along with Cassandre was one of the best graphic designers of the Art Deco period. 

 Jean Carlu: The Electric Cooker 

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Collage-style, Dufy added an illuminated cinema sign and a monument highlighted with white, red and green neon. It was in the 1930s that neon made its mark, thanks to such technological innovations as the fluorescent tube invented by the chemist Georges Claude, who also exhibited his work in the Pavillon de la Lumière. It was at the 1937 exhibition that illuminated signs and illuminations reached their peak, notably in the case of the Eiffel Tower.

photo see roger Viollet

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