Sourires et Corps de Sabre, No.4

Poster depicting a colour drawing of Death checking the time on a German military officer's pocket watch. The text roughly translates to 'It was to see if your time had arrived.'

Artist, writer and translator Georges d'Ostoya was born in Poland. He enlisted in the Foreign Legion at age 16. Over the course of his service, he travelled to Turkey, and later Paris where he settled in around 1900. He was a cartoonist for 'Le Rire', and' L'Assiette au beurre'. He contributed 41 covers and compositions of albums to the latter publication. His style sometimes references Austrian cartoonist Eduard Thony. During the First World War, Georges d'Ostoya illustrated a hostile anti-Germanism and antimonarchism in his work.