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VintageJean Cocteau Original Stone Lithograph Poster Custom Framed
By Mourlot, Jean Cocteau
Located in North Miami, FL
This original and authentic Mid-Century Modern French stone lithograph designed by Jean Cocteau from the 1950s is for a ceramic exhibition of his pieces at Galerie Pont de Arts in th...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Wood, Paper
Original Vintage British Railways Train Travel Poster Somerset Pictorial Map UK
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Railways poster for Somerset in South West England featuring a fun and colourful pictorial map with illustrations and descriptions of ancient myths and legen...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1969 Fleetwood Mac - Fillmore West Original Vintage Poster
By David Singer
Located in Winchester, GB
Designed by concert poster artist David Singer, this beautiful poster was created in 1969 to promote a live concert of Fleetwood Mac at the world famous Fillmore West in San Francisco. Bill Graham events such as this were well known for their now iconic poster art, often vibrant & psychedelic whilst Graham ran Fillmore Auditorium & Fillmore West in the 1960s & 70s. The venue was best known for hosting the likes of the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
$654 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Vintage Travel Poster BOAC World Air Routes Western Hemisphere Design
By E.O. Seymour
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for BOAC World Air Routes Western Hemisphere featuring a pictorial map with colourful illustrations of people in national dress, places of ...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
French Musée National Marc Chagall Exhibition Lithograph c. 1973
By Marc Chagall
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Give any room an angelic French flair with this framed vintage lithograph from the Musée National Marc Chagall in Nice, France. Featuring a closeup scene from his iconic 1961 Christi...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Metal, Brass
$425 Sale Price
29% Off
Original Vintage Poster Space Robot Probe Soviet Science Luna 16 USSR Moon Earth
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet space race era propaganda poster - Glory to Labour! Glory To Science! This is Our Mind, These are our Hands! / ????? ?????! ????? ?????! ??? ??? ??, ??? ???? ????! - featuring a red spacecraft with a robot arm named Luna-16 holding up a crescent moon in front of the earth with a starry space sky in the background, the message below reads - On 24 September 1970, for the first time in the history of space exploration, lunar soil was brought to earth by a Soviet spacecraft - the text in white letters. Part of the unmanned ???? ??????????? ????????? / Luna Space Programme (1958-1976), the ????-16 / Luna 16 was a robotic probe with a stereo photographic imaging system (television camera and telecommunications equipment), a remote extendable arm and a radiation detector that successfully collected and returned a 101 gram soil sample...
Category
1970s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Spanish Advertising Poster Tapbioles Y Pirretas Fur Clothing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Spanish clothing advertising poster - Industrias de Peleteria Tapbioles y Pirretas Fur Industry Barcelona - featuring an elegant Art Deco design by the Czech artist ...
Category
1930s Spanish Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage London Underground Poster Home Music Sport Squash Boxing Hockey
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Transport poster featuring a programme of events from 3 to 9 April - This Week in London Ideal Home Exhibition Olympia Concerts Squash Rackets Boxing Ice Hockey - with the text in the centre and details including the London Underground stations and days and times of a symphony orchestra, piano and violin recital, non-stop concert and music competition festival as well as squash championships and amateur association boxing at the Royal Albert Hall South Kensington, and USA v Canada ice hockey test match at the ice-drome in Hammersmith, with the London Underground roundel logo in the corner and stunning Art Deco images on the side border and below depicting theatre masks with a ballet dancer under stage lights, horse racing and motorcycle racing with a greyhound dog race and spectators, a lady diving and rowers on the River Thames in a boat race, tennis players on a court with a cricket bat, ball and stumps, and people enjoying an art gallery with paintings, sculptures and flowers outside. The British commercial artist and poster designer Cecil Walter Bacon...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Raymond Pages, Original Vintage Airline Poster, Air France, Mexico, 1971
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster-Raymond PAGES-Air France-Mexico-Avion, 1971
Advertising poster for Air France, for Mexico
Additional Details:
Materials and Te...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Lottery Poster Loterie Nationale Winter Sports d'Hiver Skiing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the French National Lottery winter sports tranche - Loterie Nationale Sports d'Hiver tranche special des Sports d'Hiver - featuring a fun desi...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original 1935 Art Deco London Transport Horse Racing Poster Epsom Spring Meeting
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sports poster issued by London Transport for the 1935 Epsom Horse Race - Epsom Spring Meeting April 20 21 and 22 Buses every 2 minutes from Morden Station to the Rac...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Skiing Travel Poster Ski Italy Alitalia Airlines Walter Foeger
Located in London, GB
Original vintage skiing travel poster - Ski Italy on Europe's Most Exciting Mountains Alitalia Airlines - featuring a skier with goggles on his head...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Rare Original Vintage Advertising Poster Air Mail Routes GPO Mcknight Kauffer
Located in London, GB
Rare original vintage advertising poster for the GPO General Post Office - Air Mail Routes - featuring a great design by the notable artist Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) showin...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Cycling Advertising Poster Humber Bicycle Emile Clouet Cycles
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for Humber bicycles featuring a heavenly illustration of a fashionably dressed lady with a bicycle lit up from the shining sun behind her and the ...
Category
1890s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster-Paul Colin-Wash All with Tac-Lessive, 1960
By Paul Colin
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster-Paul Colin-Wash All with Tac-Lessive, 1960
TAC Wash / Laundry Beads Promotion Poster. A duck represents the brand on the poster.
Additional Details:
Materi...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Tandonderhoud Eukalos Elixir Toothpaste Art Deco Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage dental care advertising poster for Tandonderhoud Eukalos pastei poeder elixir / toothpaste powder ointment featuring a great Art Deco i...
Category
1920s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Hawaii Surfing USA Surfer Waves
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Hawaii featuring great artwork of four surfers with three of them riding a big wave and a man wearing red trunks paddling out and holding his surfb...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster For Volkswagen Beetle 12 Million VW Car Advertising Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage car advertising poster for Volkswagen Beetle in Dutch and French - Daarum zijn er 12 miljoen Voila pourquoi il y en 12 millions / That's why there are 12 million - featuring fun colourful framed illustrations with stylised lettering describing the benefits of a VW Beetle car including a kangaroo - Moteur arriere Motor achteraan / Rear engine - a traditional wooden rocking chair - Comfortable comfortabel - a metal watering can...
Category
1960s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Large Original Vintage Movie Poster For Some Like It Hot Marilyn Monroe Film Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Italian 2 panel movie poster for the first release in Italy of the award winning musical comedy film Some Like It Hot / A Qualcuno Piace Caldo directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. Fun image of Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk wearing black and winking to the viewer, being lifted up by Tony Curtis as Joe / Josephine and Jack Lemmon as Jerry / Daphne wearing dresses with the mob standing in lines as stylised gangsters wearing suits with bow ties and hats and smoking cigars on both sides, pointing their tommy guns...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage 1936 Travel Advertising Poster for 7 Days London by Hamburg Sud
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising Seven Day London Travel with M.S. Monte Rosa in August and September 1936 from RM 65 full catering included Hambu...
Category
1930s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Poul Kjaerholm One-Legged or Stacking Chair Working drawing poster 1953 Danish
Located in WIJCKEL, NL
Here is a very rare and desirable vintage Working drawing poster displaying a 1953 prototype representation of the One-Legged or stacking chair by the Danish designer Poul Kjærholm. ...
Category
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Sports Poster Volleyball World Championship USSR Moscow
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sports poster for the Second World Championship Men's Volleyball / Второе Первенство Мира по Волеиболу для Мужских Команд held at the D...
Category
1950s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Road Safety Propaganda Poster Obey The Traffic Art Deco Spain
Located in London, GB
Original vintage road safety propaganda poster - Obey the traffic officer He watches over your life / Obeeix l'agent de trafic Ell vetlla per la teva vida. Great Art Deco design depicting a traffic policeman in uniform holding out one arm as a man in a suit and cap crosses the road showing a white arrow on the ground and a tram and classic Rolls Royce car...
Category
1930s Spanish Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Travel Poster Vallee D'Aoste Italy Aosta Skiing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport travel poster for the Aosta Valley in Italy - Vallee d'Aoste (Italie) Courmayeur Gressoney La Thuile Pila Ayas Champoluc Valtournance Breuil - featuring...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Jacob Lawrence Poster The Relay Race Lithograph Olympic Games Munich 1972
Located in Praha, CZ
- rare
- marked
- original
- can be framed and glazed.
Category
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
O. Capitain. Original Soviet Art Poster USSR - CCCP 1969
Located in Barueri, SP, BR
Own a Piece of History with This Original 1969 Soviet Military Poster
Step back in time and feel the strength and patriotism radiate from this ...
Category
20th Century Russian Posters
Materials
Paper
$888 Sale Price
65% Off
Original Antique Poster Britain's Strong Arm Enlist Now WWI Military Recruitment
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One military recruitment poster - Britain's Strong Arm and Yours Will Carry Us Through Enlist Now - featuring the bold white text on a blue background with...
Category
1910s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Old Art Deco Advertising Poster, 1930s
Located in Praha, CZ
- Original poster (no replica), framed,
- 1930s
- Marked by author.
Category
1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Glass, Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Osaka Castle Japan Bus Tours Sakura Cherry
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Japan travel poster advertising Osaka sightseeing bus tours featuring a stunning view of the historic and culturally signi...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Bullitt 1968 US 30x40 Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Original first-year-of-release country-of-origin US 30x40 film poster, rare poster as few were printed in this size and in fantastic rolled condition.
In Bullitt, Steve McQueen sta...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Dover Castle British Rail Reginald Lander
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster - Visit Dover Castle - featuring artwork by the notable commercial artist and poster designer Reginald Montague Lander (1913-1980) depicting a fa...
Category
1970s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster-Toussaint-7th Commercial Fair-Brussels-Belgium, 1926
By Ferdinand Toussaint
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster-Toussaint-7th Commercial Fair-Brussels-Belgium, 1926
Poster for the 7th Brussels Trade Fair from April 7 to 21, 1926. The Grande Place...
Category
20th Century Belgian Art Deco Posters
Materials
Paper
Red Sonja 1985 Publicity Film Movie Press Still Framed
Located in Bath, Somerset
Original 8x10 inches Publicity Film Still for Red Sonja (1985) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Brigitte Nielsen.
Publicity (film/production) stills were created to help studios p...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Paper
School Wall Charts, City Istanbul
Located in Wolfurt, AT
This poster with a photo of the city Istanbul (Turkey) was produced by Europa et Schola Edition and used in schools for cultural education.
Foto: O. Pferschy, Istanbul - Druck: He...
Category
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Original Vintage Poster, 'LIBERIA CYCLING', 1934
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Art Deco Original Vintage Poster, 'LIBERIA CYCLING', 1934
This is an original vintage poster from 1934 advertising the French road bike frame, Liberia. Th...
Category
1930s French Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique French Educational Scientific Chart, Tissu Nerveux by Denoyer-Geppert
Located in Oakville, CT
Antique French educational Scientific chart, Tissu Nerveux by Denoyer-Geppert. Collection Remy & Cepede. Neurone-Cellules nerveuses-Fibres nerveuses. ...
Category
Early 20th Century Posters
Materials
Canvas
The Karate Kid 1984 Publicity Film Movie Press Still Framed
Located in Bath, Somerset
Original 8x10 inches Publicity Film Still for The Karate Kid (1984) starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita.
Publicity (film/production) stills were created to help studios promote th...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Paper
Francis Bacon Signed Grand Palais Poster
Located in Pewsey, GB
Francis Bacon Grand Palais Poster inscribed to Gordon, signed by hand.
This is an imprint of the posters published to advertise an extensive retrospect of the works of Francis Bacon ...
Category
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Propaganda Poster Communism Destroys Family Spanish Civil War
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Spanish Civil War era propaganda poster - Communism Destroys the Family / El Comunismo Destruye la Familia - featuring an images in sh...
Category
1930s Spanish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1969 Disneyland - Peoplemover - Tomorrowland Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Stunning exceptionally rare attraction poster from 1969 promoting the Peoplemover attraction in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. Opening in 1955 in Anaheim, California, Disneyland was ope...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Steinberg Lithography for Galerie Maeght, Printed by Mourlot in Paris, 1973
Located in Wilnis, UT
A beautiful lithography for the Steinberg Exhibition at Galerie Maeght, printed by Mourlot in Paris, France in 1973.
Framed in a nice, Minimalist black frame with passe partout, b...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
Come Dance With Me 1959 French Grande Film Poster, Clement Hurel
Located in Bath, Somerset
Voulez vous danser avec moi? Come Dance With Me. The French-Italian drama film directed by Michel Boisrond starring the beautiful Brigitte Bardot. Bardot is captured wonderfully by F...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster The Trossachs Scotland LNER Railway Cooper
Located in London, GB
Original vintage LNER train travel poster designed by one of England's leading poster artists Austin Cooper (1890-1964): The Trossachs Tour Scotland by London and North Eastern Railw...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'Thunderbirds Are Go' Original Vintage Australian Daybill Movie Poster, 1966
Located in Devon, GB
Printed in stunning stone lithography, this explosive Australian Daybill poster advertised the first full length feature film based on the British sci-fi Supermarionation television series 'Thunderbirds.' Created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, 'Thunderbirds' combined a form of electronic marionette puppetry, which they named "Supermarionation," with scale model special effects sequences. Set in the 2060s, 'Thunderbirds' followed on from the Anderson's earlier Supermarionation productions including 'Fireball XL5' and 'Stingray.' The series followed the exploits of International Rescue, a life-saving organisation equipped with technologically-advanced land, sea, air and space rescue craft headed by a fleet of five vehicles named the Thunderbirds and launched from the organisation's secret base of operations in the Pacific Ocean. 'Thunderbirds Are Go...
Category
1960s Australian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Antique Swedish School, Medicine, Teaching Chart, Poster
Located in Vienna, AT
Printed in Sweden in 1880s.
Dimensions: 60 x 80cm. Age-related patina.
Category
1880s Swedish Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Jerry Maguire 1996 Publicity Film Movie Press Still Framed
Located in Bath, Somerset
Original 8x10 inches Publicity Film Still for Jerry Maguire (1996) starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Renee Zellweger and directed by Cameron Crowe.
Publicity (film/productio...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Chinese Propaganda Quality Products Kitchen Equipment
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Chinese propaganda poster - To Provide Quality Products and Wholeheartedly Serve the People - featuring a great illustration of a smiling young lady in work uniform overalls presenting a selection of kitchen equipment...
Category
1970s Chinese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Bray County Wicklow Ireland Better Holidays
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster - Bray for Better Holidays See Ireland First - featuring people enjoying a walk along the seafront promenade and beach in the resort town of Bray in County Wicklow Ireland...
Category
1930s Irish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves 1991 Publicity Film Movie Press Still Framed
Located in Bath, Somerset
Original 8x10 inches Publicity Film Still for Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (1991) starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman and Alan Rickman.
Publicity (film/production) stills were cr...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Giulio Cesare Steam Ship Ocean Liner Cruise Travel NGI
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel poster - Giulio Cesare Genoa Buenos Ayres Navigazione Generale Italiana - featuring an image of the ocean liner at sea abov...
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1920s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Rare Original Russian Propaganda poster of Leaders Meeting
Located in Pasadena, TX
This is a rare original Russian propaganda poster of Hitler and other leaders gathered at table.
1945 print
Category
1940s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster For The Irkutsk Football League In Siberia Russia Sport
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport poster promoting the Football League in Irkutsk Russia featuring a great design depicting a footballer wearing striped shorts and kicking a ball with the styli...
Category
1920s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Torino Alps Capital Winter Sport Campagnoli Italy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting Winter Sports in Torino Capital of the Alps / Sport Invernali Torino Capitale Delle Alpi - featuring artwork by Alberto Campagnoli (1905-1983) of a red cable car ski lift traveling up past snow covered trees with a mountain and bright sun in the background, the colourful bold title text below and slogan diagonally across the image. Issued by ENIT the Italian...
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1940s Italian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Don Juan DeMarco 1994 Publicity Film Movie Press Still Framed
Located in Bath, Somerset
Original 8x10 inches Publicity Film Still for Don Juan DeMarco (1994) starring Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaway.
Publicity (film/production) stills were created to help s...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Paper
What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Publicity Film Movie Press Still Framed
Located in Bath, Somerset
Original 8x10 inches Publicity Film Still for What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) starring Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio and Juliette Lewis.
Publicity (film/production) stills were ...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster For Canada By Sabena Airlines RCMP Mountie Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - verso il Canada con la Sabena / to Canada with Sabena (the national airline of Belgium from 1923-2001) - featuring a colourful mid-century design showing a smiling Canadian Mounted Police officer wearing the iconic red jacket and brown hat looking towards a traditional carved totem pole...
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1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
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Paper
1930's Educational Poster - Human Anatomy Spine
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy Spine
1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy Spine. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall chart f...
Category
1930s Czech Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Bugatti Poster by Rene Vincent for Bedos, Paris, 1960s
Located in Montelabbate, PU
960 reissue of the famous Renè Vincent poster, printed on high-quality, thick paper.
Category
1960s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Lexicon Hispano Olivetti Typewriter Graphic Design Bird
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Avant Garde advertising poster for the Lexicon Hispano Olivetti 80 typewriter model featuring a great mid-century graphic design depicting a colourful bird flying above a photograph of a new Olivetti typewriter...
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1950s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Movie Poster Ballet Russe Folk Dance Galina Oulanova Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for a dance film featuring Galina Oulanova la plus celebre danseuse etoile Danses Populaires et les Ballet Russes rythme entrain gaite! / Galina Ulanova the most famous prima ballerina Popular Dances and the Ballets Russes cheerful lively rhythm! Great folk dance art depicting a lady in a colourful swirling skirt and a man in traditional costume dancing in the foreground, a row of ladies behind men cossack dancing in the background in front of a tree and wooden building in the countryside with a church spire against the blue sky, the text above and diagonally below in bold lettering. The award winning prima ballerina assoluta Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova (1910-1998) is considered one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century. Artwork by the notable French film poster designer Boris Grinsson (1907-1999). Large size. Good condition, folds, creasing, paper losses, tears, browning, staining, some restored tears, backed on old linen.
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1950s French 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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