Posters

Original Vintage Poster for Mossant Hats dating from 1938 by Leonetto Cappiello. Artist: Leonetto Cappiello Title: Mossant Date: 1938 Size: 47.25 X 63 in / 120 X 160 cm Printer : Editions Nouvelles Cappiello, EDIMO, 15 rue Galvani - Paris Materials and Techniques: Colour lithograph on paper Linen backing: Yes Condition: A (Normally designates a poster in very good condition. Colours are fresh and there is very little or no paper loss. Any imperfections are marginal and unnoticeable). Additional Details: The headquarters Mossant was founded in 1833 by Casimir Mossant. The company is developing thanks in particular to the development of the railway, which allows for distant supplies and expeditions. In the 1920s, the firm Mossant is at its peak. The factory employs 1,200 workers and produces up to 2000 hats per day, nearly half of which is in the United States. After 1929, the economic crisis affected exports and the company diversified its production of felt (bags, berets, ...). Hat manufacturing activity declined and, in the 1950s, the factory's activity was converted into apparel until 1985, when the company was wound up. About Leonetto Cappiello, The Father of Modern Advertising Leonetto Cappiello, born on April 9, 1875, in Livorno, Italy, is considered a pioneer in the world of advertising, often referred to often hailed as the "father of modern advertising." His groundbreaking work in poster design revolutionized the industry and cemented his status as a visionary artist. Cappiello was renowned for his innovative and impactful poster designs, characterized by bold colors, simple forms, strong outlines and a strong focus on the product. His work significantly influenced the development of advertising as an art form. Initially drawn to caricature, Cappiello's true genius blossomed when he shifted his focus to poster art. His innovative approach, marked by bold colors, simple colours, simplified forms, strong outlines and a strong emphasis on product identification, set him apart from his contemporaries. Cappiello’s posters were instantly recognizable, capturing the essence of a product or brand in a single, powerful image. His work significantly influenced the development of advertising as an art form. The artist's career flourished in Paris, where he immersed himself in the vibrant artistic scene and his work spanned various industries: Food and Beverage: Campari, Cinzano, Café Martin...

The Big Country 1958 US 1 sheet film movie poster, bass, linen backed. Another fabulous design by Saul Bass features on the US 1 Sheet Style B poster for 50s The Big Country starrin...

A great antique anatomical chart depicting the different sense organs. the chart is sheet number VI as part of the architecture of human anato...

Long harbouring a dream of becoming a movie star as well as a chart topping rock and roll idol, Elvis Presley made his acting debut as Clint Reno in this 1956 Western, starring as th...

1969 Roy Lichtenstein Guggenheim Museum Exhibition Poster, Framed Offered for sale is an original Roy Lichtenstein exhibition poster dating from the Solomon R. Guggenheim exhibit w...

Original US photographic production still for Star Wars 1977. The film was directed by George Lucas and starred Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher. This piece is framed in a S...

Andy Warhol Queens advertisement circa 1985 featuring Queen Elizabeth: Vintage original 1980s poster advertisement for Andy Warhol Reigning Queens at Leo Castelli gallery, New York....

Original vintage "Berliet" advertising enamel sign, made in France in the 1930s. Dimension: 65 x 42 cm.

Original vintage London Underground poster - Lazy days, by tube at Little Venice. Nearest station: Warwick Avenue. Great image featuring a lady wearing a white outfit and holding a sun hat lying down sunbathing next to a canal boat on the water. Little Venice by Sandra Fisher...

The beautiful country-of-origin Advance UK Quad for the fourth Bond film Thunderball. Fantastic artwork of Sean Connery by Robert McGinnis & Frank McCarthy, highly collectible. This...

Original vintage skiing and winter sport travel poster for Zermatt Switzerland Schweiz Suisse featuring a dynamic photo by Alfred Perren-Barberini of a skier wearing a red ski jacket...

Charles Olson's "The heart is a clock" Poster Poem published 1968 by Edward Budowski (Aries Publications Buffalo N.Y.) in a numbered edition of 25-this i...

3750 Screen print on Irish linen of an Englishman and his bull dog Linen applied to board Set in a custom wood frame

Stunning original Cote d'Azur 1968 SNCF French Railways Travel poster designed by Bernard Villemot. The SNCF (Société nationale des chemins de fer français) is France's national state-owned railway company and was founded...

Original Japanese film poster for the 1988 studio Ghibli animation. Hayao Miyazaki, one of the founders of Studio Ghibli, wrote and directed this film. Studio Ghibli, which was found...

Very nice original artwork by Stanislav Duda features on the Czech poster for Disney’s Lady and the Tramp. From the film's first-year-of-rele...

Original vintage travel poster - Come to Malta - featuring a colourful design by Frank Portelli (1922-2004) depicting a bottle of wine and fruit on a table under a green and white st...

Original vintage sport poster for the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held from 26 August to 11 September 1972 in Munich Germany featuring a bright design by the American Pop Art artist Th...

Original antique alcohol drink advertising poster for Piper-Heidsieck Champagne featuring a great design of a lady holding a large glass of champagne against a yellow background with...

Liberte 1950 Cie Gle Transatlantique French Line Travel poster, designed by Edouard Collin A lovely design with wonderful bright colours! Founded by the Pérei...

Ha! I told you chains of green kryptonite could not hold me! Fabulous original 1960s Superman poster - Printed by G & F Posters NYC official licensees Copyright National Periodical ...

Wonderful vintage 1991 US poster from for Marvel's Captain America. This Supersized door panel is simply super!!!! This vintage poster have been professionally cleaned, de-acidified...

Lithograph signed P.B. (Paul Baroni) depicting a pugilist / boxer created circa 1910. Artist: P.B. (Paul Baroni) Title: The Boxer Date: vers 1910 Size: 18.7 x 18.5 in / 47.5 x 47 cm...

Beautiful design by Polish School of Posters artist Wojciech Fangor features on the Polish film poster for Billy Wilder's classic Love in the ...

Original vintage movie poster issued in advance of the release in America of the classic spy film James Bond 007 A View to Kill - Has James Bond finally met his match? Find out this summer - directed by John Glen and starring Roger Moore (in his last film as James Bond), Christopher Walken, Grace Jones as May Day and Tanya Roberts with music composed by John Barry and the title song performed by Duran Duran. Classic design by Dan Goozee...

This poster of landscape theory by Saul Steinberg, created in 1969 and published by the Israel Museum in 1978 , its an offset lithograph poster , nicely framed in glass and brass fra...

Original vintage Batman cartoon poster featuring a colourful illustration of the comic book superhero wearing his grey and blue costume, mask and cape with the bat logo on a yellow background on his chest, the cartoon character leaning back as he's hit by something with his speech bubble reading: Nonsense! There are no such things as – Uhh! Artwork by the notable American comics artist Carmine Michael...

An original nicely framed Charlie Chaplin "Charlot" movie poster, designed by Auguste Louis Leymarie, color lithograph on paper. At over 5 foot tall French poster is an impressive si...

Artist: Anonymous Title: Exposition pour l’avancement des Sciences - Lyon - 1926 Date: 1926 Size (w x h): 31.5 x 47.6 in / 80 x 121 cm Printer: Société Nouvelle - AFFICHES GAILLARD -...

1980 Cuban vintage silkscreen poster for the animated movie from Juan Padron “Elpidio Valdes y el Fusil” designed by Bachs for ICAIC. The short propaga...

It's Hard to Be Down When You Are Up, Original New York World Trade Center Poster, circa 1970 original framed, in very good condition. Poste...

Original vintage Art Deco travel poster issued by the PLM Paris Lyon Mediterranee railway for Nice featuring stunning artwork depicting an elegant lady relaxing on a balcony with a v...

The fabulous and much celebrated Three Basset Hounds Cyrk poster by one of the Masters of the Polish School of Posters, Roman Cieslewicz. In museum collections around the world inclu...

Original vintage World War Two Soviet propaganda poster - Long Live the 25th Anniversary of the Leninist-Stalinist Komsomol! Dynamic artwork depicting soldiers and workers marching f...

The Curse of Frankenstein (Frankenstein S'est Echappe), classic 1957 British horror by Hammer Film Productions, loosely based on the 1818 novel Franken...

We adore this original 1960s TWA New York travel poster designed by David Klein. Klein's depiction of Times Square with wonderfully bright and eye-popping...

Very rare and fantastic deluxe oversized illustrated still for Stanley Kubrick's seminal sci-fi 2001: A Space Odyssey featuring the iconic design by Bob McCall. Printed in Italy in ...

Original 1996 Alexander Calder Exhibition Lithograph Print entitled, "Anteater", honoring the 60th Anniversary of the Louisiana Museum in Denmark Beautiful minimalist, bold and foca...

Original US production still for Michael Caine's Classic, 1971 gangster thriller. Directed by Mike Hodges. This is one of the best images from the film. The piece is conservation fr...

Exceptionally rare original Japanese handbill legendary 1926 Science Fiction film Metropolis. This film was directed by the great Fritz Lang and starred Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel an...

Original vintage train travel advertising poster issued by Southern Railway - Waterloo Station 1848-1948 A Centenary of Uninterrupted Service During Peace and War - featuring a detailed illustration of the busy Central London station depicting people in smart suits and fashionable dresses, shoppers and families, people in different military uniform, boy scouts and porters, a girl sitting on a suitcase and two ladies running to make their train, a couple kissing and a man pushing a bicycle, people at the news stand and buying tickets at the main line booking office, Royal Mail vans parked on the side and steam trains on the platforms, a green Southern Railway van with a penguin on the side advertising Chessington Zoo and Circus driving by in the foreground, the glass ceiling architecture and the iconic four-faced clock...

The Classic Cappiello poster in an outstanding custom frame. Signed in the plate 922 lower left. A festive female figure supports a glass of overflowing bubbly Contratto on a black b...

Original vintage travel poster for Beyrouth Liban / Beirut Lebanon featuring a compass design with arrows pointing to a red dot in the centre, the text ...

Five Easy Pieces 1973 Czech A3 film poster, Karel Machalek £220.00 Wonderfully symbolic and striking artwork by Karel Machalek features on the Czech film poster for Jack Nicholso...

Beautiful large vintage school map, school poster about ergot (Claviceps purpurea), a fungus that grows on the ears of cereals such as rye and wheat and other grasses such as cocksfo...

"Earth Day 1991 New York City" color commemorative poster designed by well-known graphic design Seymour Chwast. Great vintage condition. Offered unframed. Ships rolled. Paper Size 33...

Original vintage motor sport advertising poster celebrating the Mercedes Benz victory at the European Grand Prix 1954 - Triumph der Silberpfeile Mercedes-B...

Original antique cabaret theatre poster advertising a performance - T'en Auras Parisiana Revue en 3 actes & 10 tableaux de MMrs H. Moreau Verdellet & Ch, Quinel - You'll Get It a rev...

A very large vintage Lyceum Don Quixote framed advertising poster after Sir William Nicholson and James Pryde. Featuring horse back / equestrian theme of ...

A wonderful Art Deco period original lithographic poster for Ramos-Pinto port by Rene Vincent depicting two lovers joined by a winged cupid offering a glass of port. This iconic ima...

Fantastic original Authorised Commercial Star Wars poster from 1977 printed by Factors Inc. featuring favourite droid duo C-3PO and R2D2! This vintage poster has been professionally...

A vibrant French Petite poster for Walt Disney's pioneering 1982 sci-fi adventure 'Tron.' Written and directed by Steven Lisberger, the futuristic film starred Jeff Bridges as a comp...

Simply beautiful first edition Polish cyrk (circus) poster featuring a fantastic dream like design by Polish School of Poster artist, Danuta Zukowska. One of the few female artists i...

Original vintage SNCF railway travel poster for the Cote d'Azur / French Riviera on the Mediterranean coast featuring a scenic view by the French painter Edmond Ceria (1884-1955) tow...

Original vintage advertising poster for the Olivetti Lettera 22 portable mechanical typewriter designed by Marcello Nizzoli in 1949 featuring a great mid-century graphic design depic...

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster featuring an illustration of two cosmonauts with USSR and Czech SSR on the helmets of their...

Original antique political election propaganda poster issued by the Liberal Party - Keep the Wolf from the Workman's Door by Sticking to Free Trade - featur...

Original Polish cyrk (circus) poster featuring a fabulous Bear on Ball design by Maciej Urbaniec. Very rare first edition from 1963. The ‘Cyrk” circus poster in Poland appeared for ...