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Posters For Sale
Nielsen, Original Travel Poster, Near East Fly SAS Airline, Aviation, Camel 1960
By Otto Nielsen
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Scandinavian advertising poster for SAS to promote tourism in the Near East.
Artist: Otto Nielsen (1916 - 2000)
Title: Near East by SAS
Date: 1960
Size: 24.8 x 39.2 in / 63 x 99.6 c...
Category
20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Paul Bunyan Honestly Great Quality & Pleasure Beer Drink
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster - Paul Bunyan Honestly Great in Quality and Pleasure - featuring a great image of a smiling bearded man in a chec...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Peter Scott Sportswear Golf To The Fore
Located in London, GB
Original vintage clothing advertising poster - Always to the Fore! Peter Scott Sportswear Pure Wool and Pure Cashmere - featuring a great illustration of a lady in a fashionable spor...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Imperial Airways Poster Empire Flying Boat & Ensign Air Liners
Located in London, GB
Original vintage imperial airways travel advertising poster featuring images and details on three planes - Ensign Air Liner for European and E...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Old French Poster of Farm Animals Great for Country French Kitchen from Paris
Located in Chicago, IL
Old French Poster of Farm Animals which could look great in a Country French Kitchen. These used to be sold in Paris and unfortunately the store suf...
Category
1950s French Country Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Floating Lanterns Festival Miyazu Kyoto Japan Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising the Floating Lanterns festival and national dance contest in ?? Miyazu Kyoto on 15 August featuring a colo...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Music Advertising Poster Tristeza On Guitar Baden Powell Jazz
Located in London, GB
Original vintage music advertising poster for the Tristeza on Guitar Baden Powell & his quartet from Brazil album tour the poster featuring a photograph o...
Category
1960s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage London Transport Poster Museums Kensington Map Fred Taylor Art
By Fred Taylor
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Transport poster - the Museums Kensington - featuring detailed artwork by Fred Taylor (1875-1963) depicting an aerial map view of the V&A Victoria and Albert Museum (founded 1852), the Natural History Museum (founded 1881) and the Science Museum (founded 1857) located along Exhibition Road leading from South Kensington towards the Royal Albert Hall (opened 1871) and the Albert Memorial (opened 1872) in Hyde Park surrounded by trees, the title text between two London Transport roundels below. Printed by The Dangerfield Printing Co...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Star Wars (1977)
Located in London, GB
Star Wars (1977) - FRAMED
Photo Still (8 X 10 Inches)
Original photographic production still.
This is a framed original still of Chewbacca (portrayed by Peter Mayhew), the legendar...
Category
1970s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
$467
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Far East Fly There by BOAC Dancer Thailand
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising the Far East Fly there by BOAC British Overseas Airways Corporation featuring a colourful image of a traditiona...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original French color lithograph poster for Saxoléïne by Jules Chéret, 1900
By Jules Chéret
Located in North Bergen, NJ
Original vintage French Art Nouveau color lithograph poster for Saxoléïne by Jules Chéret, 1900 (green dress)
Catalogue raisonné: Lucy Broido, "The Posters of Jules Chéret," entry 9...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Posters
Original Vintage Japan Travel Poster Spring Cherry Blossoms on River Boat Cruise
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Japan featuring a stunning illustration of ladies and men wearing smart clothing, the man at the front wearing a suit and hat sitting with a lady w...
Category
1930s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Art Deco Gardening Poster, 'L’ Art L’Ecole', 1931 by R. Rochett
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage Art Deco Gardening Poster, 'L’ Art L’Ecole', 1931 by R. Rochette
Original Art Deco poster featuring children gardening. This poster was designed by R. Rochette, t...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
'Ulysses' Original Vintage Movie Poster by Wiktor Gorka, Polish, 1957
By Wiktor Gorka
Located in Devon, GB
A simplified adaptation of Homer's 'Odyssey,' the 1954 Italian fantasy-adventure film 'Ulysses' follows the warrior king on his wandering ten year journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, where his loyal queen and son pray for his safe return. Kirk Douglas starred as the titular Greek hero, alongside producer Dino De Laurentiis' wife Silvana Mangano in a double role as both the faithful wife Penelope and mysterious sorceress Circe. Shot over seven months on a budget of $3 million, with almost a year in post-production, 'Ulysses' earned $124 million at the US box office alone and provided a template for Italian productions to come, igniting the sword-and-sandal craze for lavish Greco-Roman historical...
Category
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster New Zealand Fights WWII Military History
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - New Zealand fights - featuring a colorful bold design depicting a New Zealand soldier in uniform and wearing a helmet leaning on hi...
Category
1940s New Zealand Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Hamlet Dalla Costa, original serigraph framed, Milan Italy 1980s
Located in Firenze, IT
Hamlet Dalla Costa, serigraph on original glossy paper, First Edition, c. 1980.
Framed in handmade lacquered wood frame, the passepartout is raffia. Glass.
Silkscreen prints on glo...
Category
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Raffia, Glass, Wood, Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster SAS Scandinavian Airlines System Olle Svensson
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for SAS Scandinavian Airlines System featuring a colourful design depicting a plane flying around the globe with the flags of Sweden, Norwa...
Category
1950s Swedish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster-Savignac-Devos-Pathe Marconi-Humoriste, 1968
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster-Savignac-Devos-Pathe Marconi-Humoriste, 1968
Poster for the Raymond Devos show "There are strange things". Pathea Marconi relea...
Category
20th Century French Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Teaser Cinema Poster James Bond Moonraker 007 Daniel Goozee
By Dan Goozee
Located in London, GB
Original vintage teaser cinema poster for the James Bond movie - Outer space now belongs to 007 Moonraker Blasting Off This Summer! - starring Roger Moore, Lois Chiles (Holly Goodhea...
Category
1970s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Russia Sabena Airlines Belgium USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Naar Rusland met Sabena / To Russia with Sabena (the national airline of Belgium from 1923-2001) featuri...
Category
1950s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original 1920s Travel Poster Advertising New Mexico and Arizona Rockies by Train
By Kenneth and William Willmarth
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for New Mexico and Arizona Rockies land of history and mystery travel by train. Stunning Art Deco design by the brothers Kenneth and Willia...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique WWI Home Front Poster How Can I Serve Canada Buy Victory Bonds
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One home front poster - They serve France How can I serve Canada? Buy Victory Bonds - featuring an illustration of three ladies pulling a plough up a hill ...
Category
1910s Canadian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Keith Haring Debbie Dick 'Keith Haring Safe Sex'
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Keith Haring 'Debbie Dick'
Vintage 1988 Keith Haring Safe Sex promotional item:
Offset printed sticker featuring a Classic Keith Haring imag...
Category
1980s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
$180 Sale Price
20% Off
Scarce Original Vintage Military Propaganda Poster Multiracial POW WWII US Army
Located in London, GB
Scarce original vintage military propaganda poster - I will trust in my God and the United States of America ... I owe this to God Home Country - featuring artwork depicting three US Army soldiers in tattered uniform crouching on the ground in front of a barbed wire fence with one man drawing the American flag on the earth alongside a Christian cross...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Villemot, Original Vintage Poster, French Railway, Car Rental, Train, Key, 1971
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster created by Bernard Villemot in 1971 for the French Railway.
Artist: Bernard Villemot
Title: SNCF – Service Train + Auto – Location de voitures
Date: 1971
Siz...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Olivetti Graphika Typewriter Design Italy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Olivetti Graphika typewriter model featuring a great mid-century graphic design depicting letters of the alphabet on typewriter keys...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Kaiser Franz Joseph Haus Hotel Austria Lechner
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport ski travel poster for the Grossglockner 3798m Karnten Alpenhotel Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Haus Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse 2418m Osterreich Austria. Great artwork by Hubert Lechner (1903-1990) depicting people walking along the hillside road with cars parked below a row of flags and arches in the stone wall on the grass in the foreground, people on the hotel sun terrace enjoying the view of the Pasterze Glacier and the snow covered Grossglockner mountain in Carinthia against the blue sky above with Austrian flags...
Category
1920s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster Queen Of Bermuda Ship Horse Ride Cycling
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Bermuda - on the Queen of Bermuda. Scenic design by Adolph Treidler (1886-1981) featuring a lady wearing green chequered shorts riding a bicycle next to a policeman standing by a Keep Left notice, a couple enjoying a horse and carriage ride and people waving from the dockside to a large cruise ship at sea in the background. Launched in 1932, the SS Queen of Bermuda was a British turbo-electric ocean liner that provided passenger services between New York and Hamilton Bermuda...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Spanish Civil War Poster Treballadors! Workers Against Fascism
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Spanish Civil War poster - Workers! All Against Fascism / Treballadors! Tots contra el feixisme - featuring a dynamic warrior...
Category
1930s Spanish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Running Fence California (Exhibition Poster)
Located in New York, NY
Original Exhibition Poster by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Running Fence: 5.5 meters (18 feet) high, 39.4 kilometers (24.5 miles) long, extending east-west near Freeway 101, north of S...
Category
1970s Danish Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Aluminum
Original Vintage Poster 24 Hours Montjuich Motorcycle Race Grand Prix Barcelona
By Beltran Botill
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motor sport poster for the XXIV Horas Internacionales de Montjuich 4 & 5 July 1959 Pena Motorista Barcelona FIM FME PMB Pirelli / 24 Hour International Montjuic orga...
Category
1950s Spanish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
A Clockwork Orange (2019R)
Located in London, GB
A Clockwork Orange (2019R)
Original British Quad (30 X 40 Inches)
A Clockwork Orange 2019 British Film Institute re-release postet printed on thick heavy paper with a rubber /vinyl ...
Category
2010s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Ishikawa Nagoya Railway Japan Kanazawa Castle
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster for 石川 Ishikawa on the Japanese island of Honshu issued by the Ishikawa Prefecture Tourism Federation and the Nagoya Railway Bureau featuring sce...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Movie Poster Bullitt Steve McQueen German Robert Vaughn Film
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for the German release of the cult American thriller film Bullitt based on the 1963 novel Mute Witness by Robert L. Fish, directed by Peter Yates and st...
Category
1960s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Gagarin Storming Starry Ocean USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet space propaganda poster - The country of workers and peasants is storming the starry ocean / ?????? ??????? ? ???????? ???????? ???????? ?????! Dynamic artwork by the notable Soviet political poster designer Viktor Koretsky (1909-1998) featuring a smiling Yuri Gagarin (Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; 1934-1968), the Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who was the first man in space on 12 April 1961, in shades of blue with white stars and CCCP / USSR on his helmet in the centre, framed by an agricultural farmer and a factory worker on each side with wheat crops and Industrial machinery...
Category
1960s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original French Release James Bond 007 'From Russia With Love' Poster, с.1964
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A very rare and original James Bond From Russia with Love / Bons Baisers de Russie (1963) Poster, French, First French release 1964. T...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage SNOOPY Poster, circa 1958
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This is an original vintage poster of SNOOPY, 'Someday I Must Give Up This Mad, Carefree Existence'
This poster has been linen backed for preservation, it is in excellent condition....
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Rene Gruau Biancheria Ortalion Woman Italian Fashion
By René Gruau
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This is an original vintage poster by the world-renown artist, Rene Gruau. This poster is a classic and stylish poster oozing elegance and sophistication. This poster is linen backed...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Greece Fly TWA Airlines Lockheed Constellation
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Fly TWA Greece Trans World Airlines - features a statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena holding a shield and spear on top of a decorative column (one of two statues in the Academy of Athens as the city's patron) with a Lockheed Constellation plane...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Hound of the Baskervilles 1959 UK Quad Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderful first-year-of-release, country-of-origin UK Quad film poster for Hammer Horror's Sherlock Holme's classic The Hound of the Baskervilles. Superb design.
The iconic Hammer...
Category
20th Century British Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
After Hours 1987 Polish B1 Film Movie Poster, Andrzej Pagowski
Located in Bath, Somerset
The fantastic Polish film poster for Martin Scorsese's 80s flick After Hours (Po Godzinach). Pagowski's artwork is wonderfully dark and bizarre, capturing the surreal nature of the f...
Category
20th Century Polish Posters
Materials
Paper
French Mid-Century Modern, Large Framed Racing Poster, Monaco Grand Prix, 1997
Located in Manhasset, NY
French Mid-Century Modern, Large Framed Racing Poster, Monaco Grand Prix, 1997
Original vintage motorsport poster for the Grand Prix De Monaco Historique taking place on the 3 and 4 May 1997 featuring a dynamic image of red, green and blue vintage classic racing cars driving at speed past some historical architecture. The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is a series of automobile races focused on historic motorsport. The event is typically held biennially two weeks before the Formula One Grand Prix...
Category
1990s Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Past Present Future Aviation Air Travel Horse Car Plane
Located in London, GB
Original vintage aviation advertising poster featuring cartoon style artwork depicting The Good Old Times Past / The Fugitive Present / The Radiant Future of air travel...
Category
1920s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Creative Playthings Educational Toys Driver Toy Car Fun
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Creative Playthings educational toy shop in Manhattan New York featuring a fun and colourful graphic design by the South African toymaker ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage 1922 Motor Car Racing Poster Armangue Trophy Tarragona Spain
By A. Garcia
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motor car racing poster advertising the Armangué Trophy in Tarragona on 29 October 1922 organized by the Reial Moto Club de Cataluny...
Category
1920s Spanish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Poster Ski Old Quebec Chateau Frontenac Canada
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport poster - Ski in Old Quebec Chateau Frontenac - featuring stunning artwork depicting a smiling lady with blonde hair wearing a patterned pink jumper with small images of snow covered chalets and trees, mountains and skiers on it, standing on top of a snowy slope holding a ski pole and looking up to the blue sky in the background, the title in stylised white lettering above and in black below. The historic Chateau Frontenac hotel opened in 1893 in Old Quebec Canada (now the luxury hotel Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac); this iconic building is located in the old walled city by the St Lawrence River...
Category
1940s Canadian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Art Exhibition Poster Rolf Gerard Pont Des Arts Lucie Weill
Located in London, GB
Original vintage exhibition poster for Rolf Gerard Au Pont Des Arts Galerie Lucie Weill 6 Rue Bonaparte VIe from 4 to 21 May 1955 featuring a painter by the artist depicting people w...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage "South Coast Village" Poster by Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage "South coast village, Santa Ana, California" poster by Peter Max, circa 1973. The poster announces the grand opening of the shopping center in Augu...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Expressionist Posters
Materials
Paper
$300 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Vintage Exhibition Poster, Henri Matisse, 'BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE' 1970
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original Vintage Exhibition Poster, Henri Matisse, 'BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE' 1970
This is an original exhibition poster by Henri Matisse from 1970, the overall condition is very good...
Category
1970s French Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Army Air Service "Over There!" WW I Recruitment Poster by Louis Fancher, 1918
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Offered is a 1918 WWI recruitment poster by Louis Fancher. This U.S. Army Signal Corps Recruitment Poster features an army serviceman raising one hand and...
Category
1910s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Steve McQueen 'Bullitt' Original Vintage US One Sheet Movie Poster, 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 crime thriller, featuring on...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
Original Vintage Election Poster Support National Government Team Work Football
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport themed 1935 General Election political propaganda poster for the British Conservative Party - It's Team Work That Counts Support Natio...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Film Poster Geordie British Romantic Comedy Movie Drama
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet film poster for the 1960 Russian release of a 1955 British romantic comedy drama Geordie / ?????? directed and co-produced by Frank Launder and starring Bill Travers in the lead role as Geordie Mac Taggart with Paul Young as his younger self, Alastair Sim and Norah Gorsen, about a young man who does a mail order bodybuilding course to impress the girl he loves, becoming one of the strongest men in Scotland and selected for the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. Colourful illustration of a man in a tartan kilt...
Category
1950s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
BORIS BUCAN Two Sheet Silk-Screen Original Vintage Poster, Zagreb Jazz Fair 1980
By Boris Bucan
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
BORIS BUCAN Two Sheet Silk-Screen Original Vintage Poster, Zagreb Jazz Fair 1980
This is an original vintage poster for the Croatian Jazz Festival, a witty design by poster artist, ...
Category
1980s Croatian Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Visit Hong Kong Junk Boats Night Harbour
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Asia travel poster issued by the Hong Kong Tourist Association - Visit Hong Kong - featuring a night scene of people on sampan and traditional junk boats in a harbou...
Category
1950s Hong Kong Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
French Art Nouveau stone litograph "Les dirigeables PARCEVAL et GROSS" by Gamy
By Gamy
Located in Köln, NW
French Art Nouveau Original stone litograph with gouache hand colored details by pochoir process signed Gamy, Mabileau & Cie, Paris.
"Les dirigeables PARCEVAL et GROSS en manoeuvre à...
Category
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Belgrade Yugoslavia Turist Express Holiday Travel Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Belgrade - Turist Express Beograd Yugoslavia - featuring great artwork of a smiling couple with wings on their backs dressed in trench coats and ho...
Category
1950s Serbian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1973 Jimi Hendrix (A Film About) Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Directed by Joe Boyd, Gary Weis and John Head, "Jimi Hendrix" or "A Film About Jimi Hendrix" was released in 1973 and followed the titular guitar and rock & roll icon between 1967 an...
Category
1970s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Ktas Holder Forbindelsen Vedlige Keeps The Connection
By Per Arnoldi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - Ktas Holder Forbindelsen Vedlige / Maintains the connection - featuring a colourful illustration by the Danish poster...
Category
1980s Danish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'To Kill a Mockingbird' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Romanian, 1963
Located in Devon, GB
A scarce original poster for the first Romanian release of the 1962 American film adaptation of Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'To Kill A Mockingbird,' which addressed themes of racism and injustice in the Deep South. Gregory Peck won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch, while his ten-year-old co-star Mary Badham was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for her role as daughter Scout. Robert Duvall made his big screen debut as the misunderstood recluse Boo Radley...
Category
1960s Romanian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, 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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