Leon Haffner

Original Antique WWI Poster Reality Of War At Sea Ship Submarine Guerre Sur Mer

1918

Original vintage Swiss poster for Rabarbaro Zucca Aperitif. Great image featuring an illustration of a bottle of the Italian aperitif drink infused with Chinese rhubarb root and other botanical herbs and spice, a graphic design depiction of an Asian lady...

Original vintage Soviet aviation propaganda poster - Слава Советским Соколам! / Glory to the Soviet Falcons - featuring a dynamic military illustration of the red hammer and sickle f...

Original vintage recruitment poster - Air Force Pilot ... Your Career / Pilote a la Force Aerienne ... ta carrière! Great design featuring a ...

Original vintage travel poster issued by the Spanish national tourist board Patronato Nacional del Turismo PNT following the restoration of the Moncloa Palace in 1929 and re-opening as a museum - Palacete de la Moncloa...

Original vintage Soviet film poster for a feature on the first International Ballet Competition for young ballet dancers held in Moscow - Молодой балет мира / Young World Ballet - sh...

Original vintage advertising poster for The Financial Times (founded 1888) newspaper - What's going on below the surface? Read The Financial Times - featuring a great design depictin...

Published in a limited edition of 750. Author: Douglas Cooper Format: Hard Copy Publisher: Berggruen Éditeur Publisher Location: Paris, France Total Pag...

Wonderful original surreal artwork by German artist Piet Morell (b.1939). Titled in German "The Worshiper of a Beautiful Watering Can". Signed bottom right. Work is B&W pencil on ...

Karl Alexander Gerich (English, 23.4.1956 - 4.1.2016) Beautiful Bath No. 23, 1996 - Etching - Sheet ca. 29.9 x 29.9 cm - No plate mark (trimmed sheet) This pack is said to be Karl’s declaration of Love to his chosen city of Bath. Each card narrates a part of Bath’s rich history. The court cards depict portraits of personalities – real and legendary – who shaped the city of Bath as it is today. Ufinished, proof print with depictions of the court cards of diamonds and clubs, but an empty cartouche where Karl himself will appear at a later state as the joker, playing mandolin. On one of the documenting photos you can see a photo copy of what the joker card would look like. Sheet is in good condition and suitable to be framed. Karl was a brilliant playing card maker and certainly one of the most genius artist-craftsmen I had the pleasure to learn about his work and know. He could do it all: Come up with the tale, weave meaning(s) into it, fill it with spirited characters of his liking, draw it, etch it, print it, colour it and handcraft the inks, paper and card into wondersome packs of playing cards, each of them living in their own, most exquisitely crafted boxes. Every pack a magical marvel, filled with the spirit of this genius card maker … All this he did using his Adana printing press, very simple hand tools and great skill. When Karl closed down his studio in St.Peter’s Terrace in Bath, England and moved to Poplar Close, he sold off work for which he felt he no longer wanted to be the custodian. So a number of prints reached the market then. Printed sheets by Karl Gerich...

Koichi Sakamoto (Japanese, 1932) Thatched Cottages with Mountains beyond • Mezzotinto etching, sheet ca. 35 x 55 cm • Plate ca. 20 x 39.5 cm • Signed bottom right • Edition 11/80 (...

Karl Alexander Gerich (English, 23.4.1956 - 4.1.2016) - Etching - Transformation, No. 37, 1993 - Sheet 41.5 x 29.7 cm - Plate 22.3 x 30.1 cm A finished but uncolored sheet from Karl’s masterpiece - The Nursery Rhymes Transformation Playing Cards produced for the E. P. C. S. 10th Anniversary in 1993. This sheet of nine transformation playing card designs whose designs are based on nursery rhymes and in the suit of diamonds (2-9). Sheet is in good condition and suitable to be framed. Karl was a brilliant playing card maker and certainly one of the most genius artist-craftsmen I had the pleasure to learn about his work and know. He could do it all: Come up with the tale, weave meaning(s) into it, fill it with spirited characters of his liking, draw it, etch it, print it, colour it and handcraft the inks, paper and card into wondersome packs of playing cards, each of them living in their own, most exquisitely crafted boxes. Every pack a magical marvel, filled with the spirit of this genius card maker … All this he did using his Adana printing press, very simple hand tools and great skill. When Karl closed down his studio in St.Peter’s Terrace in Bath, England and moved to Poplar Close, he sold off work for which he felt he no longer wanted to be the custodian. So a number of prints reached the market then. Printed sheets by Karl Gerich...

François Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731 - c. 1800) Le Pigeon Ramier de Madacascar (The Wood Pigeon of Madagascar) • 18th century hand colored Copper Plate engraving • Plate No. 192 from : L' Histoir e des oiseaux, peints dans leurs aspects apparents et sensibles, published in 1790 (“The History of the Birds, painted in their appearing and sensitive aspects“) • Glased & ebonized hardwood frame contemporary to the engraving, ca. 43 x 33 cm Worldwide shipping is complimentary - There are no charges for handling & delivery. A rare pigeon print...