Document Art

Harper's May (Plate 115) is an 1898 lithograph of Edward Penfield's poster, printed at Imprimerie Chaix by Jules Chéret and included in the famed collection of Belle Époque posters 'Les Maîtres de l'Affiche.' From the deluxe edition of 100 printed on japon - total edition size unknown. Framed in an ornate, gold-tone frame. Designed by Edward Penfield for a May edition...

Artist: Mel Ramos (American, b. 1935) Title: Dunkin' Donuts (Cindy Crawford) Year: 2006 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 1...

The iconic 1930 poster, "Lys Chantilly - Chemin de fer du Nord," is a testament to the genius of its creator, Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, one of the most influential poster artists of ...

Basquiat Rome 1982: Rare, highly sought-after original catalog/exhibition card to Basquiat's 1982 Rome show at Galleria Mario Diacono, Italy. Opening to ...

Robert Boullier's 1905 poster for the Chemins de fer de l'Ouest invites travelers on a captivating journey. This vintage masterpiece beckons explorers to d...

Image dimensions. 26x18.2 cm. Mele is a precious color lithograph printed by G. Ricordi and C. Milano, Milan, between 1895 and 1914. An advertising poster of the famous Italian tai...

Original poster of Chu Ling printed in 1991 entitled Gatto Seduto ( Crouching Cat ). This poster printed in serigraphy is edited by Silvio Zamorani in ...

Roger Falck's 1939 original poster for the Musée de l'Homme at the Palais de Chaillot and the Nouvelle Salle d'Amérique is a captivating piece of art and historical documentation. Th...

Paphy is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the Mid-19th Century. Original B/W woodcut print on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the Upper margin in Capital Letters: Paph...

Original poster made by Ellsworth Kelly in original Lithography, for his exhibition at the Maeght Gallery in 1964. Ellsworth Kelly was an American painter, sculptor and printmaker as...

Variable Memory is original offset print realized by Italian artist Aldo Tagliafferro in 1973. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right.

Ex Libris Aira Konu is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. On the upper side in inscripted in capital ...

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...

Original poster of Roberto Matta created in May 68, with the slogan: Disciples occupy the discipline. For a revolutionary discipline. Born on November 11, ...

Epicuro is an original drawing in china ink realized as study for a book cover by Gabriele Galantara The state of preservation of the artwork is good. This artwork represents a cent...

Christmas greeting card is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the 1970's. Colored watercolor and charcoal drawing on cardboard. Initials of the artist on the lower mar...

Original vintage exhibition poster On the occasion of the exhibition in February/May 1990 In great condition, minimal storage traces

Jacques and Pierre Bellenger designed this original vintage poster in 1936. This clever image shows that Bourin Quinquina is the perfect versatile bev...

Simon's original travel poster for "Les Vosges Sports d'Hiver" encapsulates the timeless appeal of winter adventures in the Vosges Mountains, conveniently located within a short jour...

Paper Size: 30 x 20 inches ( 76.2 x 50.8 cm ) Image Size: 15.5 x 10 inches ( 39.37 x 25.4 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age Supplem...

This sublime psychedelic poster was made for a concert of Creedence Clearwater Revival , Jethro tull & Sanpaku. Rock concert posters are one of the...

Griffon was one of the earlier French bicycle producers, but not much history about the company has been preserved. This poster highlights not just the company's bicycles but also it...

About the Tree of Life Series: These works feature a cast of cartoon characters, bisected in each painting by an eponymous tree of life, and accompanied by various gestural abstracti...

Thomas Nast is one of America’s great illustrators and is responsible for creating the image of Santa Claus as we know him today. This is a hand-colored wood engraving from the cover...

Raymond Pettibon: Rare early Black Flag punk flyer: Black Flag Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Jun 11, 1983. Santa Monica, CA. Flyer / handbill for gig by Black Flag, Misfits, Vandals featuring artwork by Pettibon. Post-marked 1983 on verso; rare as such given the SST stamp on verso (Black Flag's record label). Offset Print; 8.5 x 11 inches. Features Pettibon printed signure on the lower right. Condition: Minor signs of handling and fading or yellowing; fold-lines and staple marks to upper & lower center (these were originally stapled together and mailed); in otherwise very good overall condition given age & medium. Post-marked 1983 and hand addressed on verso. Rare. Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist once said of Pettibon's Black Flag illustrations and iconic logo: "Before I knew what Black Flag was I remember walking around Hollywood and seeing Raymond's flyers and being like, 'What the fuck is that?'… Those flyers made me feel like something is going on and it's romantic and it's mysterious and it's heavy and I don't know what it is but I wanna know." About Raymond Pettibon (Americanb. 1957) Raymond Pettibon is a contemporary American artist known for his stylized ink drawings combining images and text. His inventive narratives blend historical content with consumer culture to yield incisive critiques of contemporary society. “I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology,” he explained. “There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures.” Born Raymond Ginn on June 16, 1957 in Tucson, AZ, the artist is self-taught, but cites drawings by William Blake, Edward Hopper, Francisco Goya, and John Sloan as instructive to his practice. Deriving inspiration from comics, cartoons, and other pop culture iconography, Pettibon began designing album covers and ephemera for his brother’s band Black Flag in the mid-1970s. He went on to produce cover art for Sonic Youth, the Minutemen...

Leonard Nowak, 'Tourists', conté crayon and India ink, c. 1940s. Signed in ink, lower left. Original cartoon drawing, on textured, off-white wove drawing...

A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Paul Rousso attended the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio and went on to earn his BFA from the California College of the Arts in 1981. In his...

Original lithograph of Josef Fenneker’s German Expressionist poster design for the 1920 silent film Hass (Hate) directed by Manfred Noa. J...

Artist: Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990) Title: Der RosenKavalier Year: 1980 Medium: Offset lithograph on archival paper Size: 26 x 20 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Sig...

This is an early original stone lithograph poster created by the noted artist Maurus, for Air France. In In this image he shows vignettes of various destinations that Air France flie...

Walter Schnakenberg’s 1920 poster promoting the decadent (and likely debaucherous) Munich cabaret Bonbonnière & Eremitage. The costume and poster designs of Walter Schnakenberg defined ballet and cabaret during Germany’s Weimar...

Beautiful poster created around 1950s by Albert Brenet 🇫🇷 (1903-2005), a famous French painter, poster artist, sculptor and illustrator. He was notably appointed official painter...

rtist: Henri Matisse Medium: Lithographic Poster, 1958 Dimensions: 25.5 x 18.25 in, 64.8 x 46.4 cm Classic Poster Paper - Perfect Condition A

Official Vintage 1937 program of the Coronation of King George and Queen Elizabeth. Framed in a dark brown wood shadowbox with an off-white colored ma...

An entire generation was traumatized by the grotesque classroom films on driving safety. After their sensible removal from the education system, these films became the stuff of legen...

Over the course of his long and prolific career, Norman Rockwell executed over 300 cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post. In addition to these beloved commissions, Rockwe...

"Books and Butterflies #6" is a contemporary American realist painting. The still life shows a tower of eighteen books, a collection of art, history, and famous literary texts. The t...

Reinhard Görner Inter Arma Charitas Lisbon, Portugal 2014 50 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed Internal Search: Reinhard Görner, Library series, Halle, Germany, Large-Scale Photography, Large-scale German photography, German Libraries, German Monuments...

Vintage advertising poster made by Derouet Lesacq in 1939 for the National Lottery with the slice of the Eiffel Tower. Economy - Paris Lafayette Paris

"In the Beginning There Were Mistakes" is a Gallery Poster featuring the artwork of CHARLES BRAGG (American, b. 1931). The print measures 28 x 22 inches and is unframed. It is Plate-...

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...

"Art is a mirage of the conscious and the unconscious." -Jean Cocteau This original lithographic poster by Jean Cocteau was created for an exhibition of works related to his project...

Morgan Library II New York 50 x 62.4 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 74.9 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trim...

Norman Rockwell is an American artist and illustrator who is best known for his Saturday Evening Post cover illustrations. This original vintage poster was created from an oil painti...

This lithographic poster was created after Georges Braque, from an original etching published by the Gallery Maeght "The Pitcher and Bird". It was repro...

Very beautiful tourism poster of the 50s for Yugoslavia and its 1000 islands. Tourism - Balkans - Dive - Croatia

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...

The 1937 original exhibition poster by Daragnès for "Le Livre au Trocadéro," created for the Exposition Internationale in Paris, represents an important moment in the celebration of ...

Introducing a captivating new series of artworks inspired by the iconic artist Kaws. These unique pieces are crafted from prints designed by Kaws himself and meticulously vectorized ...

Coco Chanel, Gabrielle the world-famous French fashion designer The French Kiss Art Collection, one of a kind, Original Artwork. Drawn using fine line bl...

Latitude 43 was designed by the avant-garde architect Georges-Henri Pingusson. The building, listed as a historical monument in 1992, is a reference in ter...

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...

Salvador Dalí­ "Le Creuset philosophal" from Alchimie des Philosophes Mixed media, from original gouache by Dalí­, printed with lithography, etching and sil...

An original hard copy of Andy Warhol's Brillo book. 11.25" h x 8.75" w. Wear consistent with age and use. Some wear at corners, as in the images. Andy Warhol, an American artist,...

Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...

Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...

(after) Alphonse Mucha Poster for 'Monaco - Monte Carlo' Reproduction Colour Lithograph of Original, From Mucha Foundation 60 x 41 cm Embossed Mucha Foundation lower middle Edition 7...

James McQueen, Protect me from what I want , 2024 Silkscreen and Archival Pigment in Colour on Deckled Edge Somerset Satin 410gsm Paper floated on a frame with 3mm Float Glass 112....