The watermark in the lower right corner of the image will not appear on the final print.
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7.00" x 10.00"
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7.00" x 10.00"
Tho-Radia Radioactive Radium Makeup Cosmetics Ad Canvas Print
by Tina Lavoie
Product Details
Tho-Radia Radioactive Radium Makeup Cosmetics Ad canvas print by Tina Lavoie. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars (gallery wrap) or 5/8" x 5/8" stretcher bars (museum wrap). Your canvas print will be delivered to you "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
I want to share this fascinating vintage cosmetics poster with you. It's for a product called Tho-Radia and it was marketed in the 1930s. The image... more
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Artist's Description
I want to share this fascinating vintage cosmetics poster with you. It's for a product called Tho-Radia and it was marketed in the 1930s. The image for it is stunning and kinda creepy. Tho-Radia came in cream and powder for and it was made with Radium and Thorium. Radium is quite radioactive. Radium's most stable isotope, radium-226, has a half-life of about 1600 years.Thorium is a weakly radioactive metallic chemical element. They mixed it together for makeup because it kind of glows. In the olden days, they painted clock faces with it so they would glow in the dark, but that's a whole other horror story for another time. Tho-Radia was advertised as being a scientific method of beauty (Méthod Scientific de Beauté). The medical ‘benefits’ of radium had been highly publicised in the French press and were well known by the French populace in the 1930s but they had no idea how dangerous radioactivity was. This advertising poster shows a face lit from below which makes it look like i...
About Tina Lavoie
In another life, I would have a dual major in art history and color theory. But in this one, I am inspired by those areas of study, and am a licensed professional artist. You can find my work in a variety of brick & mortar and online stores
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Ukrainian Artists
Tina, congratulations on your sale of this amazing photo!
Jeff Brassard
superb!
Agustin Uzarraga
Congratulations on your sale! :)
Jeff Brassard
congrats for the sale!
Jon Burch Photography
Congratulations on your new sale