Adolphe Jean-Marie (AM) Cassandre

Cassandre Original Vintage Poster 1951 for Venezia Gondolier

1951

TWA (Trans World Airlines) was formed in 1924 as Transcontinental & Western Air. The airline's first route was New York to Los Angeles, soon followed by multiple National routes. The airline expanded to serve Europe, the Middle East and Asia after WWII when the company was under the control of Howard Hughes, owner from 1939 until 1961. Hughes was a dominant force in expanding and promoting the routes flown by his company. The economy was vastly improving, and travels through air for business and pleasure increased too. Posters were a key element to promoting this form of travel and TWA. The airline started a decline in the 1970s that ended up in a third bankruptcy that caused their acquisition by American Airlines in 2001. The airline operated in 132 destinations worldwide and had a fleet size of 190. This Rome poster...

This is one of a series of 4 images commissioned by the Rhone Alpes region in France to promote its many attractions. The artist is Georges Mathieu . Mathieu's artistic style is abst...

This is one of a series of posters created for the Loterie Nationale (National Lottery) in France by a team of artists known as Derouet-Lesacq. In these posters, the element of simplicity is emphasized, allowing the artists to apply detail to the array of environments that these posters are set in. This Art Deco style poster is for a special Homemaking (Arts Menagers) lottery drawing. The man in the center of the image is shown lounging on a chair, presenting an unplugged chord, demonstrating comfort after his lottery win. The French Government promoted a nationwide lottery for many years, and during the 1930’s they commissioned artist Edgar Derouet to create many of their posters. Derouet realized his posters either alone or with one of his many collaborators. This poster is the result of a collaboration with Charles Lesacq, who worked with Derouet from 1938 to 1940. Edgar Derouet (1910-2001) is known for his simplistic, geometric and modern advertising posters for the French Lottery (Loterie Nationale). Derouet was selected by France to create a campaign for the Loterie Nationale because of his well-known reputation as a graphic artist. In his earlier days, Derouet studied with well-known poster artists Paul Colin and George Hamel, allowing him to further perfect his illustration technique. Derouet won an award for Best Poster of the Year in 1936 and was featured at the International Exposition in Paris, France in 1937. Charles Lesacq (1909-1940) was a French artist best known for his French National Lottery poster...

This vibrant vintage advertising poster by Leonetto Cappiello promotes La Boulonnaise, a brand of preserved herring and mackerel from Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. Cappiello’s compositio...

Original vintage poster by Adolphe Jean-Marie Cassandre created in 1951. Published for the Venezia Graphic design conference and for the Italian tourist office ENIT to promote the ci...

We love this vintage Air France poster advertising travel to Italy by Guy Georget promoting travel to Venice, depicting a masked musical harlequin, with bold graphical lines and vibr...

Commissioned by ENIT – Italian Government Tourist Board. This stylish Art Deco travel poster from c1930 was created by renowned Italian artists Marcello Dudovich and Marcello Nizzoli...

Original vintage travel poster for Vendee France featuring a colourful illustration of a smiling man on a gondola boat with a seagull flying overhead, tal...