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Art Subject: Poster
"Astro" Acrylic and Collage on Korean newsprint
By Gary John
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Gary John has been a street artist since 1985, originally from Seattle Washington, then moving to Venice Beach selling his art on the boardwalk for 10 years before exploding onto the...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Acrylic, Newsprint
Original Seattle World's Fair, America's Space Age vintage 1962 poster on linen
By Earle Duff
Located in Spokane, WA
Vintage 1962 Seattle World's Fair Poster by Earl Duff – Linen Backed. Condition A-: upper right corner restored as shown in the last enlarged photo. Size 35.5” x 25”.
Capture a piec...
Category
1960s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
Mitosc Szesnatolatkow Vintage Poster - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Mitosc Szesnatolatkow Vintage poster is an offset print on paper realized in 1970a.
Good condition and aged.
Print: Slavic Artist
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
Cyrk - Vintage Poster by Waldemar Swierzy - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Manifesto for Circus is an original poster realized by Waldemar Swierzy (Poland, 1931-2013) in the 1980s.
Good condition. Hand-signed.
Waldemar Swierzy (Poland, 1931 - 2013); born in Katowice, Poland, he graduated from the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1952. He was subsequently Professor in the University of Fine Arts in Poznań from 1965 and Professor in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1994.
In 1992 the government of Poland issued a postage stamp to honor one of his Cyrk posters, 'Clown with derby'. Swierzy is one of the Polish School of Posters' most prolific artists, having created over 2500 posters.
He employed unusual concepts with a variety of techniques, frequently mirroring Polish social history from 1950s through 1980s, with a myriad of styles: folk art from the 50s, pop art from the 60s...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
Illustrations for Childrens' Book - Exhibition Poster - Offset - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage offset poster realized in occasion of the exhibition @Galleria Marino of illustrations for childrens' Books in 1976.
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
The Propeller Pilot - Original Handsigned Drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Yvon TAILLANDIER
The Propeller Pilot
Original pastel drawing
Handsigned in pencil
On vellum BFK Rives 50 x 65 cm (c. 19.6 x 25.5 in)
Very good condition, slight traces of pastel in...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Pastel
Balance - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931.
On Hollande van Gelder paper.
Edition of 300.
Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Monte Carlo - Tir aux Pigeons - 1900s - Adolfo Hohenstein - Print - Modern
Located in Roma, IT
Monte Carlo is a precious colored lithograph, printed by G. Ricordi and C. Milano, Milan, between 1895 and 1914, in occasion of "Tir aux pigeons Concours".
A very beautiful vintage a...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Dr. Suess" Acrylic and Collage on Los Angeles newsprint
By Gary John
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Gary John has been a street artist since 1985, originally from Seattle Washington, then moving to Venice Beach selling his art on the boardwalk for 10 years before exploding onto the...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Acrylic, Newsprint
Segno Zodiacale Acquario - Original Screen-Print by Sergio Barletta - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Segno Zodiacale Acquario is an original screen print on grey paper realized by Sergio Barletta.
Signed on the lower left margin.
In good conditions e...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Dodecahedron (Hand Signed Poster by Mark Ryden)
By Mark Ryden
Located in New York, NY
Mark Ryden
Dodecahedron (Hand Signed by Mark Ryden), 2015
Offset Lithograph poster (hand signed by Mark Ryden)
Hand signed by artist on lower right front for the present owner.
20 × 16 inches
Unframed
This Mark Ryden offset lithograph poster was published on the occasion of his exhibition at the Paul Kasmin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Permanent Marker
Return of the Jedi 1983 Original Vintage Poster
Located in London, GB
Return of the Jedi 1983 Original Vintage Poster
measures 27×41" inches / 68 x 104 cm
unfolded
rolled
excellent condition
Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, C Print
Galerie Maeght, Pop Art Lithograph Poster by Richard Lindner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Richard Lindner, German/American (1901 - 1978) - Galerie Maeght, Year: 1977, Medium: Lithograph Poster, Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toadstool - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931.
On Hollande van Gelder paper.
Edition of 300.
Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Meat Carcass and Bird of Prey - Vintage Poster
Located in Paris, IDF
(After) Francis Bacon
Meat Carcass and Bird of Prey, 1986
Original vintage poster (hight quality offset)
On heavy paper 78 x 45 cm (c. 31 x 18 in)
Edited by by Maeght for the artist...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
"Boris Da Moose" Acrylic and Collage on Korean newsprint
By Gary John
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Gary John has been a street artist since 1985, originally from Seattle Washington, then moving to Venice Beach selling his art on the boardwalk for 10 years before exploding onto the...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Acrylic, Newsprint
Sunlight Sapone - Vintage Adv Lithograph by L. Metlicovitz - 1900 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 27.4x20 cm.
Sunlight Sapone is an amazing colored lithograph on cardboard, realized by the Italian artist and one of the fathers of the modern Italian poster art, Leopoldo Metlicovitz (Trieste, 1868 - Ponte Lambro, 1944). Printed by Officine Ricordi, Milan in 19o0, the advertising manifesto for "Sunlight Sapone" ( Sunlight Soap) representing two women washing their clothes, is inspired by the Art Nouveau graphics taste.
Indeed Metlicovitz, through the Ricordi, realized much advertising posters and manifestoes for many emerging companies such as Pirelli, Ettore Moretti, Magazzini Mele in Naples, relied with his talented pencil. The atmosphere is that of the Liberty, where the sensuality of the female body appears flat and emptied and turns into a mere twisted black contoruring graphic line. The colors are enameled, the languid glances, the fixed smiles, veined by an almost imperceptible underground decadence that is a prelude to the First World War.
This is a wonderful vintage advertising poster, with the inscriptions printed on lower margin, under the image: "L. Metlicovitz / Off. G. Ricordi and C. Milano / 100 x 200. In excellent conditions.
This modern original poster shows the vintage Art Nouveau taste and the Metlicovitz's full mastery of the artistic medium, has the dignity of an object of art to collect and could be a colorful and fashionable piece for your sophisticated home furniture.
Leopoldo Metlicovitz (Trieste, 1868 - Ponte Lambro, 1944)
The Italian painter, illustrator, theatrical and advertising scenographer is considered one of the precursors of Futurism and, together with Leonetto Cappiello, Adolf Hohenstein, Giovanni Maria Mataloni and Marcello Dudovich, one of the fathers of modern Italian poster art.
He began his artistic career at the age of fourteen working as an apprentice in a typography in Udine, where he learned the technique of lithography. Here he is noticed by Giulio Ricordi, owner of the namesake Officine Grafiche, who invites him to Milan to work as a lithographer. In 1892, after collaborating with Tensi, a photographic product company, he returned to Ricordi as technical director. At the same time, he entered the theatrical environment and began his career as a set designer and costume designer at La Scala. The Mele di Napoli tailoring company entrusted him with the task of advertising his clothes and in 1906, on the occasion of the great Universal Exposition in Milan, he won the competition for the fair poster, establishing himself also as a poster artist and then collaborating with several magazines as an illustrator. For Ricordi he takes care of the illustrations of calendars, opera librettos, postcards. Other famous images created by him are those for the poster of the film Cabiria, a blockbuster of the silent film scripted by Gabriele D'Annunzio, and the trademark that is still used today by the Brothers Branca Distilleries, producers of Fernet Branca...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Steamroller - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931.
On Hollande van Gelder paper.
Edition of 300.
Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Our Father Who Art in Heaven" Original 1899 Color Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Alphonse Mucha worked mainly as a poster artist and became an influential figure of Art Nouveau in late 1890s, when poster illustrations were emerging as popular art form and new pri...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Kostume, Plakate, und Dekorationen, "Schnackenberg-Ausstellung 1914""
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
Category
1910s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nassau County Museum of Art (Sculpture/Jim Dine/Pinocchio) Poster (Signed)
By Jim Dine
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Jim Dine (American, 1935-)
Title: "Nassau County Museum of Art (Sculpture/Jim Dine/Pinocchio)"
*Signed by Dine in black marker lower righ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Permanent Marker
Vintage David Hockney poster Young Playwrights Festival 1982
Located in New York, NY
A masked performer gestures his hands, wearing bright green garb, a long hat, and jaunty black shoes with white socks. Hockney paints in loose strokes of color: garnet, sapphire, bright yellow, and emerald green. This vintage David Hockney...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait - Woodcut by Lorenzo Viani - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original woodcut on paper, realized by the Italian Artist Lorenzo Viani in 1930 ca.
The State of preservation is excellent.
Monogrammed...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Red Aircraft - Lithograph by Fabio De Poli - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Red Aircraft is a lithograph print on ivory-colored cardboard realized by Fabio De Poli in the late 20th century.
Hand signed on the lower in pencil, Artist's proof.
Very good con...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Lead Us Not Into Temptation" Original 1899 Color Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Alphonse Mucha worked mainly as a poster artist and became an influential figure of Art Nouveau in late 1890s, when poster illustrations were emerging as popular art form and new pri...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Love and Racial Hygene Kärlek Och Rashygien 1921 silent movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Vintage 1921 Swedish Silent Movie Poster – Kärlek och Rashygien (“Love and Race Hygiene”) starring Constance Talmadge – Linen Backed Lithograph, Excellent Condition
Offered...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage Jim Dine tool Poster Kestner Gesellschaft 1970 (Hammers 1970) retro red
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster reproduces Jim Dine’s 1970 lithograph Hammers, which is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. It w...
Category
1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L'Inspecteur Général "Revizor" - Lithograph by Hermann Paul -1897-98
Located in Roma, IT
L'Inspecteur Général "Revizor" is a litograph realized by Hermann Paul in 1897-98, for the Theatre Magazine "L'Art et la Scène".
Signed on Plate. Edition Grande Imprimerie Centrale,...
Category
1890s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Les Affiches De Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Filigrané a sa marque paper
Year: 1950
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches; image size: 11.42 x 7.87 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumber...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Kostume, Plakate, und Dekorationen, "Odeon-Casino"
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East.
In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color.
SCHNACKENBERG: KOSTUME, PLAKATE UND DEKORATIONEN, a cardboard bound art book consisting of 43 prints of work by Walter Schnackenberg, 30 of which are color lithographs that are signed and some are titled and dated in the plate, as well as black and white prints and photographs with accompanying text by Oskar Bie; lithographs printed at Kunstanstalt Oskar Consee in Munich, other images printed by Gesellschaft Pick & Co. in Munich, the text and cover with color images by Schnackenberg front and verso printed by R. Oldenbourg in Munich; published by Musarion Verlag, Munich, 1920.
The majority of Walter Schnackenberg’s artistic output was destroyed by bomb attacks in Munich in 1944. The highly publicized 2013 auction in New York of the recovered pre-war poster collection once belonging to German poster aficionado, Hans Sachs has reintroduced the world to Walter Schnackenberg’s graphic genius and priceless ephemeral art from a lost era. Besides the museum world, designer Karl Lagerfeld is one of the most prodigious collectors of Schnackenberg. Flipping through the pages of Kostume, Plakate und Dekorationen, it becomes quite clear that Schnackenberg’s collection is ground zero at the crossroads of early modern fashion where the cult of celebrity meets up with dance, music, theater and cabaret, film and the graphic medium. Berlin and Munich under Germany’s Weimar Republic in the first quarter of the 20th century produced just the atmosphere to feed this burgeoning industry. Rising inflation sparked a recklessness to live large for the moment and heightened a desire for escapism. An influx of Indian and East Asian dancers and musicians added to the artsy bohemian cultural mix. A new decadence and tolerance resulted. Film boldly featured provocative subject matter. Cabarets became popular venues giving rise to the demi-monde in which people from all social stations mixed more freely in a thriving underground economy and culture where there was a blurring of boundaries and of social codes. Noted art historian and cultural doyen, Oskar Bie astutely observes in his introduction to Schnackenberg’s publication that what unites the images is fantasy and advertisement. Schnackenberg uses the eye as an instrument to brilliantly construct and convey this double message. His personages never directly confront the viewer. Their eyes gaze off in the distance like those of the screenplayer and film star Hedamaria Scholz in Schnackenberg’s “Die Rodelhexe” movie poster. Their eyes follow the path of a dance composition or become a transfixed and ogling male gaze such as the iconic 1911 Odeon Casino...
Category
1910s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
STUDIO 54 COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS FS IIIA.16A
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint in black on wove paper, hand signed and inscribed 'to Camilla and Earl' by the artist. From the edition of 20. Sheet size 25.25 x 19.25 inches. Custom framed as pictu...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen, Paper
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Les Affiches De Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Filigrané a sa marque paper
Year: 1950
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches; image size: 11.42 x 7.87 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumber...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Les Affiches De Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Filigrané a sa marque paper
Year: 1950
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches; image size: 11.42 x 7.87 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumber...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Geo Ham 1937 Paris Race Poster
By Geo Ham
Located in San Francisco, CA
Geo Ham: 1900-1972. Well listed French artist who is best known for his posters of car racing. He has auction results over $32,000 for a single poster. This original lithographic pos...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Lighthouse, Beach Huts and Sailing diptych
By Fiona Carver
Located in Deddington, GB
The Lighthouse, Beach Huts and Sailing diptych
Overall size cm : H20 x W60
The Lighthouse linocut is a simple yet dramatic print with the billowing clouds, towering lighthouse and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Alcazar d'Eté, Lidia (Plate 25)
By Jules Chéret
Located in Greenwich, CT
Alcazar d'Eté, Lidia (Plate 25) is an 1886 lithograph of Jules Chéret's poster, printed at Imprimerie Chaix by Jules Chéret and included in the famed collection of Belle Époque poste...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
CALYPSO Signed Lithograph Man Playing Clarinet, Pin Stripe Suit, Yellow Hot Pink
By Robin Morris
Located in Union City, NJ
CALYPSO by the woman artist Robin Morris, is an original limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques(not a photo reproduction or digital print) on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. CALYPSO is a contemporary musical portrait portraying a man playing clarinet dressed in a yellow pin stripe suit...
Category
1980s Art Deco Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Aquarius - Screen Print by Sergio Barletta - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Aquarius is a screen print on grey paper realized by Sergio Barletta in 1973.
68 x 49 cm.
Good conditions.
Sergio Barletta (1934) is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator, who ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$230 Sale Price
35% Off
Musee National, Message Biblique, The Angel of Judgment, Lithograph Poster
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Musee National, Message Biblique, The Angel of Judgment
Marc Chagall (after), Russian (1887–1985), an interpretative rendering of a lithograph executed by Charles Sorlier
Date: 1974
Lithograph Poster, signed in marker
Edition of 5000
Size: 30 in. x 20.5 in. (76.2 cm x 52.07 cm)
Printer: Mourlot, Paris
Publisher: Society of the Friends of the National Marc Chagall Biblical...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mele - Advertising Lithograph by Marcello Dudovich - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions. 26x17.5 cm.
Mele 2 is a precious color lithograph printed by G. Ricordi and C. Milano, Milan, between 1895 and 1914.
A nice advertising poster representing two el...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Laderlappen" Original Lithograph Poster by Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Printed by Oscar Consee, Munich, 1922
Not much is known about this Stockholm-based cabaret act. Translating literally as Bat Man, we see a young dancer tease an oversized bat wearing a monocle -- a truly bizarre but beautiful design. (text by Jack Rennert)
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Documenti d'Identità Territoriale - Offset - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage poster realized by Galleria Rondanini in 1978.
Offset print.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Bezdomny - Vintage Poster - Original Offset Print - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Bezdomny - Poster an original poster print.
Dimention: 83 x 58.5
The artwork represents the poster of the Bezdomny
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Vintage Insurance Poster - Offset Print on Cardboard - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Insurance Manifest is an original offset advertising on cardboard realized for Società Anonima Italiana di Assicurazione in the early 20th Centiry by an anonymous artist.
The state ...
Category
20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Szalenstwo Milosci - Vintage Poster - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
Szalenstwo Milosci - Vintage Poster is a vintage poster realized by Unknow Artist, in 1979s.
Mixed colored offset print.
Dimension: 83 x 58.5 cm
The artwork represents the poster...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
Ex Libris - J.J. V. Lindt - woodcut - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - J.J. V. Lindt is a Modern Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century.
Woodcut print on paper.
The work is glued on a cardboard.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$70 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Poster by Jakub Erol - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Original vintage poster realized by Jakub Erol (Poland, 1941-2018) in 1974.
Good condition.
Signed and dated.
This work was completed to advertise a Polish cinema.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Kostume, Plakate, und Dekorationen, "Läderlappen"
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East.
In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color.
SCHNACKENBERG: KOSTUME, PLAKATE UND DEKORATIONEN, a cardboard bound art book consisting of 43 prints of work by Walter Schnackenberg, 30 of which are color lithographs that are signed and some are titled and dated in the plate, as well as black and white prints and photographs with accompanying text by Oskar Bie; lithographs printed at Kunstanstalt Oskar Consee in Munich, other images printed by Gesellschaft Pick & Co. in Munich, the text and cover with color images by Schnackenberg front and verso printed by R. Oldenbourg in Munich; published by Musarion Verlag, Munich, 1920.
The majority of Walter Schnackenberg’s artistic output was destroyed by bomb attacks in Munich in 1944. The highly publicized 2013 auction in New York of the recovered pre-war poster collection once belonging to German poster aficionado, Hans Sachs has reintroduced the world to Walter Schnackenberg’s graphic genius and priceless ephemeral art from a lost era. Besides the museum world, designer Karl Lagerfeld is one of the most prodigious collectors of Schnackenberg. Flipping through the pages of Kostume, Plakate und Dekorationen, it becomes quite clear that Schnackenberg’s collection is ground zero at the crossroads of early modern fashion where the cult of celebrity meets up with dance, music, theater and cabaret, film and the graphic medium. Berlin and Munich under Germany’s Weimar Republic in the first quarter of the 20th century produced just the atmosphere to feed this burgeoning industry. Rising inflation sparked a recklessness to live large for the moment and heightened a desire for escapism. An influx of Indian and East Asian dancers and musicians added to the artsy bohemian cultural mix. A new decadence and tolerance resulted. Film boldly featured provocative subject matter. Cabarets became popular venues giving rise to the demi-monde in which people from all social stations mixed more freely in a thriving underground economy and culture where there was a blurring of boundaries and of social codes. Noted art historian and cultural doyen, Oskar Bie astutely observes in his introduction to Schnackenberg’s publication that what unites the images is fantasy and advertisement. Schnackenberg uses the eye as an instrument to brilliantly construct and convey this double message. His personages never directly confront the viewer. Their eyes gaze off in the distance like those of the screenplayer and film star Hedamaria Scholz in Schnackenberg’s “Die Rodelhexe” movie poster. Their eyes follow the path of a dance composition or become a transfixed and ogling male gaze such as the iconic 1911 Odeon Casino poster...
Category
1910s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Andy Warhol Double Self Portrait - Louisiana (Denmark) vintage poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in Spokane, WA
Andy Warhol, Double Self-Portrait — Louisiana Museum, 1978
Original Danish exhibition poster; linen-backed; Very Fine (Grade A)
Striking vintage exhibition poster created by the Lo...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
Italian State Railways - Lithograph by A. Terzi - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Italian State Railways is an original artwork realized in the early century by Aleardo Terzi.
Mixed colored lithograph.
A vintage affiche depicting Ita...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Keith Haring Milan c.1989 (vintage Keith Haring)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Milan c.1989
Rare vintage Milan exhibition announcement circa late 1980’s featuring offset printed artwork by Keith Haring. Uniquely rendere...
Category
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset, Lithograph, Paper
Mudd Club New York 1979 street poster (framed)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Original Mudd Club poster, New York 1979:
A must have for any true Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring collector - this piece is featured in the 2017 Jean-Michel Basquiat documentary, 'Boom For Real.'
Promotional poster. 1979.
Artwork Dimensions: 18x24 inches (19x25 inches).
Very good overall vintage condition condition; some minor fading consistent with age. Minor wear to frame.
Provenance: Obtained directly from the original art designer.
The Mudd Club was founded by filmmaker Steve Mass, art curator Diego Cortez, and downtown punk scene figure Anya Phillips...
Category
1970s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Foire de Paris, 1955, vintage French travel poster, medium size format
By Jean Carlu
Located in Spokane, WA
Jean Carlu, Foire de Paris, 1955, Original Vintage Poster, Linen Backed. Very fine condition, Grade A-, ready to frame.
This is an original, linen-backed 1955 "Foire de Paris" (Pa...
Category
1950s Art Deco Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION Signed Lithograph, Children Jewish Holocaust
By Chaim Gross
Located in Union City, NJ
FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION is a fine art limited edition commemorative poster by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross. FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION was printed using four col...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Italian Design 1945 till today – Original Vintage Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original poster designed by Pierre Mendell (1929 – 2008) & Klaus Oberer (*1937) promoting an exhibition 1988 at Die Neue Sammlung in Munich on "Italian ...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
PKZ [Man Tipping His Hat].
By Franco Barberis
Located in New York, NY
Barberis, Franco. PKZ [Man Tipping His Hat]. 1953, Color lithograph, 50 1/2 x 35 1/2”
On Linen. Ref: American Poster Renaissance, p. 41
As a graphic designer, Barberis was initial...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Virgo - Original Woodcut by P. C. Antinori - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Zodiac Signs - Virgo is original Black and white woodcut, realized by Italian artist Piero C. Antinori.
Excellent condition.
Written on the lower left; Original xilography of Piero...
Category
20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ktamca - Vintage Poster - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Ktamca - Vintage Poster is a vintage poster realized by Unknown Artist, in 1974s.
Mixed colored offset print.
The artwork represented a Polish film ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Nunzio Galerie Di Meo - Paris Exposition 13 juillet 1989 by Galerie di Meo
Located in Roma, IT
Nunzio Galerie Di Meo - Paris Exposition 13 juillet 1989 is a vintage poster realized by Galerie di Meo.
Poster made for the exhibition Nunzio in 1989.
Text in french.
61x40 cm.
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Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$123 Sale Price
30% Off
"Dolly (I Love you!), " Original Color Lithograph Poster by the Clérice Frères
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dolly" is an original color lithograph poster by The Clérice Frères (The Clérice Brothers), signed within the composition on the lower left edge, just ...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph




