"L'heure du soleil"
Original costume design for a French Music Hall by Jose de Zamora,1929
Gouache on a strong drawing paper

José de Zamora (Spanish, 1890-1971) José de Zamora started with Paul Poiret for whom he designed many models, often unjustly attributed to Poiret himself. As early as the 1920s, he developed his talent for the Casino de Paris (1920-1921), the Bataclan, the Concert Mayol (1922-1927), the Palace (1923-1928), the Moulin Rouge (1924-1927) and the Folies Bergère (1926-1929). In the thirties the Spanish Civil War took him back to Spain. He reappeared in 1940, working at the Casino de Paris until 1961 and at the Mogador (1947-1957). In the mid-1960s he returned to Spain and committed suicide in 1971, following the preparation of an exhibition about his work (http://www.collection-piollet.com/)