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Posters For Sale
Period: Mid-20th Century
Period: 1860s
Original Vintage Travel Poster Britain In Spring Country View Donald Towner
By Donald Chisholm Towner
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Britain in Spring - featuring a scenic painting of swans on a river by trees and daffodils on the green grass in the foreground, and cows grazing in ...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1936 Marihuana Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
This stunning poster was created in 1936 to promote Dwain Esper's exploitation film "Marihuana - The Weed With Roots in Hell". The film, which has gone on to become a cult classic, c...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
City Lights
Located in London, GB
Original British trade advertisement for the 1931 silent Charlie Chaplin comedy romance City Lights.
This trade advertisement was used for the films 1951 rerelease.
The piece is co...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Rollable Mural Map Wall Chart Print Scandinavia Norway Sweden Finland
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A great impressive cottagecore map illustrating Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and bordering Baltic Sea countries). Colorful print on paper reinforced with canvas.
Mea...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Country Posters
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster SS Twickenham Ferry Southern Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - The New Train Ferry Boats via Dover Dunkerque - featuring artwork by the British painter and poster artist Walter Thomas (1894-1971) depi...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1960 Kennedy for President - Leadership for the 60's Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Brilliant poster printed on heavy plastic sheet for John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1960. Reading "Kennedy for President - Leadership for the 60's" and featuring a portrai...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Plastic
Original Vintage Poster Biarritz Basque Coast France Chemins De Fer Travel Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway travel poster for Biarritz featuring a scenic view over the coast depicting a couple walking down the path by flowers and trees in the foreground, the rocky ...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Bande a Part / Band of Outsiders
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for the 1964 French New Wave film Bande a Part / Band of Outsiders
This film starred Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, and Daniele Girard and was directed by ...
Category
1960s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Madame Butterfly
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian film poster for the 1932 drama, romance.
This is an exceptionally rare piece that has only surfaced a few times.
The artwork is unique to the films first release i...
Category
1930s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Saturday Evening Post Clown Pooch Dog
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the 3 June 1939 issue of The Saturday Evening Post illustrated magazine featuring a clown in a blue and red polka dot outfit teaching a dog tr...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
All About Eve
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1956 starring Bette Davis, George Sanders, Anne Baxter and Marilyn.
This film was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
The art work on this poster is by...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"One Million Years B.C. / She" Original British Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British movie poster used to advertise a double bill film showing Raquel Welch's 1965 and 1966 fantasy adventure films, She and One Million Years...
Category
1960s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Picasso Museum Poster of Madamme Canals by Pablo Picasso, circa 1966.
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Picasso Museum Poster of Madamme Canals by Pablo Picasso.
Manufactured in Spain, circa 1966.
In original condition with minor wear consistent of age and use, preserving a beautiful...
Category
1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1930s Italian Medical Sketch of a Campaing to Fight Tuberculosis
Located in Milan, IT
Sketch of a futurist poster, 1930s, ten cents to fight tuberculosis, for the national campaign to inform people about the prevention of this illness. Measures: cm 32 x 42, inches 12....
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Bullitt
Located in London, GB
Original US production still for the Steve McQueen's 1968 film Bullitt.
This piece is conservation framed with UV plexiglass in a Tulip wood frame with acid free card mounts. The si...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1963 Pablo Picasso Exposition Vallauris Poster Linocut
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1961 Galerie Bellechasse Picasso Toros Linocut Poster
16 x 20 art 9.25 x 11.5
Original unrestored vintage condition
Refer to listed images
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
Rare Linocut Poster "Vallavris Exhibition 1954" by Pablo Picasso
Located in San Diego, CA
Highly collectible and rare linocut poster "Vallavris Exhibition 1954" by Pablo Picasso, circa 1954.. The print is in good vintage and measures 24" x 30". It is presented in a simple black wood frame and is signed in the print. Super cool and hard to find Picasso poster! #2912
Starting in the 1950s, Picasso worked with the linocut printer Hidalgo Arnéra to produce posters for ceramic exhibitions and bullfights. The printer described their working method as such: “Picasso worked at night; in the morning, Marcel the chauffeur brought what he had completed to the print shop with notes added by Jacqueline Roque. I pulled the proofs and returned them to [his home] La Californie at exactly 1:30. This regular rhythm of working continued for eight years, every day, except Saturday and Sunday.” This idiosyncratic procedure speaks to the collaborative effort of these printmaking ventures, which included his partner, his printer, and his chauffeur
Title: Vallauris Exhibition 1954
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Printer: Printed by Hidalgo Arnéra
Publisher: Published by Hidalgo Arnéra
Date: 1954
Medium: Linoleum cut
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in 1881, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso followed in his father’s footsteps as an academically trained painter and studied art at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in his native Spain. Picasso traveled for the first time to Paris at age 19, establishing a studio there in 1904. He soon began a relationship with Fernande Olivier...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Paper, Wood
1965 For a Few Dollars More Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
The second in the iconic "Dollars" trilogy, the legendary Sergio Leone released "For a Few Dollars More" in 1965. The spaghetti Western features the great Clint Eastwood as The Man With no Name and music from Ennio Morricone...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Grapes of Wrath / Les Raisins de la Coiere
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for the 1940 masterpiece directed John Ford and starred Henry Fonda, John Carradine, Jane Darwell.
The striking artwork is by Bernard Lancy (1892-1964) an...
Category
1940s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Bullitt
Located in London, GB
Original German film poster for the action thriller directed by Peter Yates, and stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset. It is undoubtedly Steve McQueen's most famo...
Category
1960s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
On the Waterfront
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster from (1954)
This is a classic American crime drama it received 12 Academy Award nominations, winning eight, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Marlon...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Fly TWA Airlines to Los Angles Poster by Artist David Klein, circa 1960s
By David Klein
Located in St. Louis, MO
Super cool 1960s Fly TWA Airlines to Los Angles poster by famed artist David Klein. In very nice vintage condition, with only a few pins holes in the corne...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Secret Beyond the Door
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1948 Film Noir Secret Beyond the Door.
This film was directed Fritz Lang and starred Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave.
This poster is conservation li...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Union Travel Poster Intourist Spaceman USSR Kremlin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting tourism in the Soviet Union featuring a great illustration of a cosmonaut / astronaut in a space suit with a red star above and an image of a...
Category
1960s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Germany Berlin Art Deco Dzubas Deutschland
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Germany Berlin - by the German artist Wilhelm 'Willy' Dzubas (b. 1887) for the country's capital city featuring a stunning Art Deco painting depictin...
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Repulsion
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for the 1965 drama Repulsion directed by Roman Polanski and starring Catherine Deneuve and Ian Hendry.
This poster is the rarer size poster and was prin...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Exhibition 'David Hockney At Andre Emmerich' New York, 1969
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage exhibition 'David Hockney At Andre Emmerich' New York, 1969
David Hockney original exhibition poster designed and c...
Category
1960s Unknown Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Summer Germany Sommertage Deutschland Frommhold
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Summer in Germany / Sommertage in Deutschland - featuring artwork by Ernst Frommhold (1879-1955) depicting a scenic countryside view from a hill with...
Category
1930s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Hawaii Outrigger United Airlines Canoe Surfing
By Stan Galli
Located in London, GB
Original vintage United Air Lines travel advertising poster for Hawaii featuring a classic modernist design by the artist and illustrator Stan Galli (Stanley Walter Galli; 1912-2009)...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster BEA Airline Vickers Viscount 800
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for British European Airline - BEA introduces the New Viscount 800 London to Paris soon to Glasgow Belfast Frankfurt Dublin Geneva Nice Zur...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Fight For Freedom Half Slave Free WWII
By John Falter
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - This world cannot exist half slave and half free Fight For Freedom! - featuring a dynamic image by the American artist John Falter ...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Steve McQueen 'Bullitt' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1968
Located in Devon, GB
In one of his most famous roles at the pinnacle of his career, Steve McQueen is the essence of cool as tough cop Frank Bullitt in this action-packed 1968 thriller, featuring one of m...
Category
1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Big Heat / Il Grande Caldo
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for Fritz Lang's 1953 Film Noir staring Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame. The artwork on this poster was created one of the gr...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vertigo
Located in London, GB
Original American photographic production still from the film Vertigo, 1958. Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This piece is framed in a Sapele wood...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1963 8 1/2 (French) Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films of all time, "8 1/2" was released in 1963 to huge critical acclaim, winning 2 Academy Awards. The legendary Federico...
Category
1960s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Prison de Femmes / Marked Girls
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for the 1938 drama Prison de Femmes / Marked Girls. The film was directed by Roger Richebe and starred Vivian Romance and Renee Saint-Cyr
The artwork on ...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Marc Chagall, 'Nice Soleil' Vintage Poster
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This is a edition featuring a blind stamp with the markings RGM (Galerie RG Michel)
This poster was printed in France by and for the French Government.
Published in an unnumbered run of 5000
Unsigned
Sorlier, posters Pg. 38.
Marc Chagall was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints.
Nice Soleil...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster French Riviera SNCF Visit France Starr Midcentury
Located in London, GB
Original vintage SNCF railway travel poster for the Cote d'Azur - Visit France The French Riviera use the trains and motor coaches of the French National Railroads - featuring colour...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Ski Travel Poster Winter Sports Vosges France Roger Broders
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski travel poster - Alsace and Lorraine Railways Winter Sports in the Vosges The Munster Walley and The Hohneck - featuring...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Malta Valetta Grand Harbour Antoine Camilleri
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the island country of Malta located in the Mediterranean Sea featuring a colourful view through balcony arches by the Maltese artist...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1950 Campari Leonetto Cappiello Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Iconic Italian liqueur brand Campari hired the renowned French-Italian poster designer Leonetto Cappiello to create a number of varied designs across the early part of the 20th centu...
Category
1950s Italian Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Hey There, It's Yogi Bear / Les Aventures De Yogi Le Nounours
Located in London, GB
Original French painting for the 1964 animation this artwork was used to create the French poster for this film. This film was directed by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna, who also wrote the screenplay along with Warren Foster. Yogi Bear...
Category
1960s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paint
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Visit Kashmir India Sheep Shepherd Himalayas
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Visit Kashmir - featuring a scenic view of shepherds tending to their sheep on a green field, one sitting and playing music on a flute under the shad...
Category
1950s Indian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Big Heat
Located in London, GB
Original US movie poster for Fritz Lang's 1953 Film Noir staring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame.
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Hang 'Em High
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for the 1967 Western directed by Ted Post and starring Clint Eastwood.
This poster is the rarer size poster and was printed in 2 sheets and has been jo...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Ceylon Beach Picnic Sri Lanka Asia Holiday Travel Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting Ceylon featuring a great illustration showing a lady in a traditional sari dress leaning against a palm tree on a sandy beach with people on ...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'Some Like It Hot' Original Vintage Movie Poster, American, 1959
Located in Devon, GB
Billy Wilder's timeless screwball comedy "Some Like It Hot" needs no introduction - with it's non-stop action, smutty one-liners, sexual innuendo and skilful blend of high and low co...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
"Putney Swope"
Located in London, GB
This cool original US film poster is for the 1969 comedy directed Robert Downey Sr. and starring Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb and Allan Garfield
This poster is conservation linen b...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Deux Hommes Dans Manhattan, Two Men in Manhattan
Located in London, GB
Original French Movie poster for Jean-Pierre Melville's French New Wave film staring Pierre Grasset, Michele Bailly, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall. The...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Travel Poster USSR Country Of 189 Peoples Intourist
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet travel poster issued by Intourist in English and German - USSR Country of 189 Peoples Land Der 189 Volker - with the letters USSR down the side and the bold t...
Category
1930s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Antique Earthworm Scientific Educational Chart by Pfurtscheller Denoyer-Geppert
Located in Oakville, CT
Antique earthworm Scientific educational chart by Pfurtscheller Denoyer-Geppert "Chaetopoda I. Lumbricus" 51" x 55", Wooden rod measures 53".
Category
Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Canvas
Original Vintage Ski Poster Winter Sports Travel Czechoslovakia Ladislav Horak
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski poster for Winter Sports and Travel in Czechoslovakia - Sports et Voyages d'Hiver en Tchecoslovaquie - featuring a great design by Ladislav Horak (b. 1904) of a ...
Category
1930s Czech Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster Holland America Line S.S. Statendam
By Reyn Dirksen
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel advertising poster - SS Statendam Now building Ready early 1957 achievement! Holland-America Line - featuring a great design by Reyn Dirksen (1924-1999...
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1950s Dutch Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Develop Distant Lands Wealth USSR
By M. Solovyov
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - We will increase the wealth of our beloved Fatherland We will help to develop distant lands! / Богатства Отчизны Любимой Умножим, Далекие ...
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1960s Russian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Kaminoyama Hot Spring Onsen Zao Echo Line Japan
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Kaminoyama Onsen hot springs health resort town featuring great artwork in grey and black depicting a scenic view of the mountains with two tourist buses driving on the Zao Echo Line road by the Mount Zao volcano with blue water in the Okama Crater lake...
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1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
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Paper
Breakfast at Tiffany's / Diamants sur Canapes
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard's Classic
1961 Comedy Romance. Directed by Blake Edwards, Tiffany's remains the number one best Audrey Hepburn title ...
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1960s French Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Don't Slow Up The Ships WWII Jon Whitcomb
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - You deliver the ships We'll deliver the goods! Stay on the job Don't [give] slow up the ship! - featuring artwork by the American i...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original WWII Map of New Zealand - Natural & Industrial Resources in War & Peace
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two pictorial map for New Zealand her natural and Industrial resources featuring a great illustration by the notable graphic designer, cartographer and artist MacDonald Gill (Leslie MacDonald Gill aka Max Gill...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Antique and Vintage Posters
Add a welcome personal touch to your space and tie your distinctive interior scheme together by introducing antique and vintage posters to any and every room of your home.
In the late 19th century, following the advent of text-heavy posters printed from woodblocks for use in taverns and shop windows, hand-drawn poster art had become commonplace in regions such as France, England and the United States. Well-known illustrators were commissioned to produce decorative posters to advertise political campaigns, theatrical events, books, household goods and other items. Early poster artists used a printmaking technique called lithography, which sees drawings or paintings created on a stone (or metal) surface with an oil-based substance, such as a greasy crayon or tusche (an oily wash). The image is eventually affixed to the surface by means of a chemical reaction, and ink adheres to certain sections of the surface while non–image areas are made to repel the ink.
If you wanted a color lithograph in the early days, the number of stones prepared had to match the number of colors you commissioned for the poster. French painter Jules Chéret, widely known as the father of the modern poster, designed some of history's most popular lithographic posters that featured color. Today, Chéret’s art is highly collectible, along with original works by Czech painter and decorative artist Alphonse Mucha, whose posters advertising theatrical productions helped define Art Nouveau.
Over time, poster artists transitioned to more advanced techniques. Using silkscreens, woodblocks and photolithography, painters and illustrators printed larger quantities at a faster rate.
If you’ve finally tracked down that vintage movie poster, mid-century modern promotional travel poster or other work and you’re looking to find out if it is valuable, distinguishing between an original poster and a reproduction can be complicated. A professional appraiser can work with you on factors such as rarity, assessing the physical condition of your poster and authenticating your piece. For now, take care of your new acquisition because conserving posters is essential in helping them retain their value. A practical conservation method is to have the work mounted on archival, acid-free paper and thin artist’s canvas, then enclosing it in a sturdy frame. (And here is a primer on how to hang wall art, be it arranged gallery-style or otherwise.)
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