Adrien BARRERE is the artist name of Adrien Albert Athanase BANEUX, a poster artist for theater and cinema, also a caricaturist, particularly popular between 1910 and the First World War. Son of a small Parisian civil servant, he was born in the 11th arrondissement, boulevard Richard-Lenoir, on November 13, 1874. After studying law and medicine, he turned to illustration, and more particularly caricature. He then signs his works with the surname of his mother Alexandrine BARRERE. His paternal uncle Gustave BANEUX, a music composer, introduced him to the world of entertainment during the Belle-Époque. In 1904, he met fame with a large-format poster caricaturing the professors of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. Hugely popular at the time, the poster reached 420,000 copies in print. Around 1906, Adrien BANEUX collaborated with the satirical magazine "Fantasio". He draws a large number of posters for Parisian theaters, but also for cinemas. His collaboration with Pathé was fruitful. In 1912, Le Courrier Cinémétique, a professional newspaper, described him as the man of the moment, creator of more than two hundred film posters. In particular, he created the famous poster for Pathé: “All lead their children there”. Reformed because of bone tuberculosis, Adrien BARRERE was not called up in 1914. He traveled the front and the field hospitals in order to produce drawings for the press. In 1919, he created the poster of the shaggy and frightening Bolshevik, clutching a knife dripping with blood, which served as anti-communist propaganda in the post-war legislative elections. Less popular, he was exhibited again at the Salon des Humoristes in 1929 and eventually died on May 19, 1931 at the Saint-Joseph Hospital in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.