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Original vintage cruise travel poster - China Navigation Co Ltd Australia to the Orient By the New British Liners MV Changsha M.V. Taiyuan - featuring a stunning night view by Harold...

Original vintage political General Election poster issued by the Labour Party - For a Real Pension Vote Labour - featuring a dynamic design with the bold text inside an exclamation m...

Original vintage advertising poster for The Magic Circle Festival Scala Theatre Charlotte St W1 9-14 October 1961 For One Week Only featuring a great design depicting green, red and ...

Original vintage political General Election poster issued by the Labour Party - Live in Peace Vote Labour - featuring a dynamic design with the bold text inside an exclamation mark. ...

Original vintage political General Election poster issued by the Labour Party - Give Sport a Fair Deal Vote Labour - featuring a dynamic design with the bold text inside an exclamati...

Original vintage political General Election poster issued by the Labour Party against the hydrogen bomb featuring a dynamic design with the bold white and red letters inside a black ...

Original vintage winter sport and skiing poster for Austria / Autriche featuring a fun image of two young ladies leaning on their ski poles and covering a smiling snowman with kisses...

Original vintage Czechoslovak propaganda poster - Za Vlast Za Socialism! / For Motherland For Socialism - featuring dynamic artwork of a soldier in uniform and armed with a rifle gun...

Original vintage travel advertising poster for SAS Scandinavian Airlines System featuring a colourful design depicting a plane flying around the globe with the flags of Sweden, Norwa...

Original vintage travel advertising poster for New Zealand National Airways Corporation Flying's the way to travel - NAC Fast & Frequent Flights Throughout New Zealand - featuring th...

Original vintage food and drink advertising poster issued by the Ministry of Food - Milk The Backbone of Young Britain - featuring a great design by James Fitton (1899-1982) depictin...

Original vintage military recruitment poster for Britain's Commandos... The Royal Marines featuring artwork by the British poster designer Reginald Mount (1906-1979) depicting a gree...

Artist: Jean Cocteau Medium: Original Lithographic Poster, 1958 Dimensions: 25 x 19 in, 63.5 x 48.3 cm Classic Poster Paper - Perfect Condition A+ This original vintage poster wa...

Le Voci dei JUKE-BOX. Original Teatro Della Palme, Citta di San Remo vintage poster. Conservation linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. Fold marks restored. Sunda...

Original Swiss Kaffee Rahm Pilatus ; Swiss coffee cream poster. Linen backed. The coffee-colored woman poises with a coffee cup on her head, pouring s...

Joan Miro - Peacock Feathers - Original Lithograph Artist: Joan Miro Dimensions: 9 x 14-/12 inches (sheet), with the usual centerfold, as published in "Joan Miro" by Jacques Prevert ...

Artist: Henri Matisse (after) Title: Souvenirs d'Oceanie Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse Medium: Lithograph Year: 1958 Edition: 2000 Framed Size: 17" x 17" Sheet Size: 14"...

Original British Railways vintage poster: York (England). Professionally linen-backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. Printer: Jordison & CO. LTD, London. Printed in Great Britain. Published by British Railways. Size is 25" x 40". Shown is the Grand Hallway in the Treasurer’s House. This vintage York - Treasurer's House British Railways poster...

Original vintage winter sport travel poster for the Aosta Valley in Italy - Vallee d'Aoste (Italie) Courmayeur Gressoney La Thuile Pila Ayas Champoluc Valtournance Breuil - featuring...

Original vintage advertising poster for a British Army Exhibition on 25 May - Exposition Des Armees Britanniques Inauguration le 25 Mai Annexe du Grand Palais - featuring a great des...

Original vintage travel advertising poster by the notable poster artist A.M. Cassandre (Adolphe Mouron Cassandre; 1901-1968) published for the Venezia Graphic Design Conference in 19...

Original vintage ski travel poster - Winter Sports Fly Air France - featuring colourful artwork by the renowned graphic artist Bernard Villemot (1911-1989) depicting skiers skiing do...

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster for the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students featuring a colourful illustration of people from different countries dressed in their nati...

Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Clavando un par de Banderillas (Pinning a Pair of Flags) Portfolio: La Tauromaquia Medium: Aquatint Year: 1959 Edition: Deluxe portfolio edition of 10 Fr...

Original vintage British Railways poster - Track Laying By Night - featuring a stunning industrial image of men working by overhead lights and lanterns laying new railway tracks under the night sky with the title text and British Railways logo on the margin below. Artwork by the notable British artist Terence Cuneo (1907-1996) who was appointed the official artist at Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953 and is most well known for his equestrian, military and railroad paintings...

Original vintage travel poster - Fly TWA Greece Trans World Airlines - features a statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena holding a shield and spear on top of a decorative column ...

Original vintage Travel By Train map poster for London Town by the British artist, illustrator and poster designer Kerry Lee (1902-1988) featuring a detailed...

Original vintage winter sport and skiing poster - Sport Au Soleil En Suisse / Sport In The Sun In Switzerland - featuring colourful artwork by the notable artist Hans Falk (1918-2002...

Original vintage travel poster promoting Holidays in Britain When are You going on holiday? It's Better, Remember, in June or September featuring colourful illustrations showing peop...

Original vintage travel poster promoting Holidays in Britain You ought to get away this year! It's better remember in June or September featuring a fun illustration of red and white ...

Original vintage railway travel advertising poster - See Britain by Train - featuring a colourful illustration of a Scottish piper in uniform playing mu...

Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph The Red Rider From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle 1957 See Mourlot 191 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro. Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion. With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way. Haunted Harbors Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...

Original vintage travel poster for Morocco issued by The Moroccan Tourist Bureau Rabat featuring a great image depicting a shell on a sandy beach by the sparkling sea water and a per...

Artist: Henri Matisse (after) Title: La Piscine I Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse Medium: Lithograph Date: 1958 Edition: 2000 Sheet Size: 14" x 42" Signature: Signed in th...

Original vintage travel advertising poster for The Empress A Canadian Pacific Hotel Victoria B.C. In Canada's Evergreen Playground featuring colourful artwork by the Canadian artist Peter Maxwell Ewart (1918-2001) showing a view of the historic Empress Hotel...

A view of Edgartown Harbor on Martha's Vineyard by Francis Chapin, from around 1958. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one ...

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Original Holiday on Ice of 1957 linen-backed vintage poster. Size is 22” x 28”. Excellent condition, ready to frame. Rarely seen and rarely available. Mid-century modern, over ...

Original vintage propaganda poster for the post-war US sponsored ERP European Recovery Program (1948) known as the Marshall Plan - Europe All our Colours to the Mast - featuring a fa...

Original vintage mid-century design travel advertising poster for British European Airways - Fly Freight BEA - featuring colourful artwork by the notable British graphic designer Abr...

Original vintage travel poster - TAI Afrique Noire / Sub-Saharan Africa - featuring colourful artwork by the renowned graphic artist Bernard Villemot (1911-1989) depicting a plane fl...

To see our other original vintage posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the poster you want. Owen Miller (1907 - 1960) They all save for the future, you too can save through National Savings Lithographic poster 76.2 x x 50.8 cm Printed for HMSO by Fosh & Cross circa 1950. A fantastic original lithographic poster advertising the National Savings scheme. Born in Auckland and educated at Wellington College, Miller worked as an artist in New Zealand. His illustrations often appeared in Wellington newspapers. He found life difficult in New Zealand during the Depression, and eventually signed on to a boat as a deckhand, working his passage to the UK. When he arrived at the Port of London, he had only £5 to his name. His first job was an illustrator for J Lyons...

Owen Miller (1907-1960) National Savings calendar poster (1950) Lithographic poster 50 x 37 cm Printed for HMSO by Fosh & Cross. A fantastic original lithographic poster advertising the National Savings scheme and featuring a calendar for the year 1950. Born in Auckland and educated at Wellington College, Miller worked as an artist in New Zealand. His illustrations often appeared in Wellington newspapers. He found life difficult in New Zealand during the Depression, and eventually signed on to a boat as a deckhand, working his passage to the UK. When he arrived at the Port of London, he had only £5 to his name. His first job was an illustrator for J Lyons...

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Original vintage winter sport and skiing poster - Sport Au Soleil En Suisse / Sport In The Sun In Switzerland - featuring colourful artwork by the notable artist Hans Falk (1918-2002...

Artist: Henri Matisse (after) Title: Acanthes Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse Medium: Lithograph Date: 1958 Edition: 2000 Sheet Size: 14" x 10 1/2" Signature: No Reference...

Original vintage book advertising poster - Guias Afrodisio Aguado Espana y Portugal / Spain and Portugal Guide Books - featuring great artwork by Manolo Prieto (1912-1991) depicting ...

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - A pioneer is a diligent student he is disciplined and polite - featuring an illustration ...

Original vintage travel poster - Gateway to the Middle East and the Holy Land Beirut Lebanon by Clipper Pan American World Airways World's Most Experienced Airline - featuring illust...

Original vintage travel poster featuring a great mid-century design - Travel the easy way Fly Aer Lingus Irish Air Lines - depicting a hand of a pilot as a comfortable chair holding ...

Original vintage travel poster - Fly BEA to Malta GC British European Airways - featuring a great design by Laurence Cyril Bagley (1922-1983) depicting people in a sailing boat in th...

Original vintage travel poster - Fly SAS Denmark - issued by Scandinavian Airlines System featuring artwork by Viggo Vagnby (1896-1966) depicting birds fl...

Original vintage train travel poster - Enjoy Summer in Canada Go Canadian National The Railway to Everywhere in Canada. Fun and colourful ...

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Great Buildings of Communism - featuring a pictorial map design with an illustration of the Moscow Kremlin and skyscrapers in the capital ...

Original vintage advertising poster - per la confezione fine Industrie Grafiche Crespi Vigevano Telef. 3272 / Graphic Industries for fine p...

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Original vintage alcohol drink advertising poster stand - Scottish Cream Blended Scotch Whisky An Inspiring Spirit The Kinloch Distillery Co Ltd Glasgo...

Original vintage advertising poster for Ceylon The / Ceylon Tea featuring an image of a tea picker and illustrations including a microscope, receipt, kettle on a flame, a teapot and ...