Maurin Poster

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the maurin poster you’re looking for. Frequently made of paper, fabric and linen, every maurin poster was constructed with great care. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer maurin poster, there are earlier versions available from the 20th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. A maurin poster made by Art Deco designers — as well as those associated with Art Nouveau — is very popular. A well-made maurin poster has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Leonetto Cappiello are consistently popular.

The average selling price for a maurin poster at 1stDibs is $3,982, while they’re typically $700 on the low end and $10,841 for the highest priced.

Leonetto Cappiello was born in 1875 in Livorno, Italy, but took on the nationality of French in 1930. He first achieved fame as a caricaturist, then by inventing the modern poster and creating the first brand logos, including the green devil for Maurin Quina. A self-taught artist, he created his first paintings in 1886. In November of 1900, he signed his first contract with the publisher P. Vercasson, for whom he produced posters from 1902 to 1913. After World War I he joined the publisher Devambez, for whom he worked until 1936. In 1922, his poster sketches were exhibited at the Venice Biennial and the French Institut in New York. In 1928 his “Self Portrait” was ordered by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. In 1936 he participated in the Milan Triennial and the Exhibition of the French Poster in Prague. After his death in 1942, Cappiello’s work was the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1947, the House of Culture in Livorno, Italy, in 1960 and the Grand Palais in Paris in 1981.