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Posters For Sale
Frank Stella Prints 1967-1982 Vintage Exhibition Poster University of Michigan
By Frank Stella
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A monumental vintage exhibition poster on board featuring “Frank Stella, Prints 1967-1982” at University of Michigan Museum of Art, 25 September - 21 November 1982. A rare poster whi...
Category
Late 20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Film Poster Galaxina Dorothy Stratten Playboy SciFi Movie Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for an American science fiction space comedy film Galaxina directed by William Sachs and starring Stephen Macht, Avery Schreiber, James David Hinton and introducing the 1980 Playboy Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten...
Category
1980s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1980 Joy Division - Closer Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
The NME Album of the Year, "Closer" was released in July 1980, just a couple of months after the agonising death of singer Ian Curtis. Regarded as one of the era defining Post-Punk a...
Category
1980s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Fashion Advertising Poster Austin Reed Good Clothes Design Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage men's fashion advertising poster - Austin Reed Good Clothes for Town and Country - featuring a stunning image of two elegantly dre...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Vignobles De France Vins De Bourgogne Burgundy Wine Map
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster promoting French wines (one of a series issued by the Comite National de Propagande en Faveur du Vin national committee for the promotion of...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Cornwall Leonard Richmond GWR Railway Harbour Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage GWR Great Western Railway poster for Cornwall featuring a scenic view of fishing boats in a Cornish harbour and men on the pier by a lighthouse with fishing nets in the foreground, a village above a sandy beach on the other side and sailing boats on the calm sea...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Newspaper Advertising Poster The Weekly Telegraph Insurance
By John Hassall
Located in London, GB
Original antique newspaper advertising poster - The Weekly Telegraph - featuring a fun and colourful illustration by the notable artist John Hass...
Category
Early 1900s British Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
1970 New York Film Festival Rosenquist Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Beautiful poster for the 8th New York Film Festival, held between September 10th to 20th 1970 at the Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center. This piece "Short Cuts" was designed by the ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Skiing Travel Poster Alpes And Jura PLM Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport and skiing travel poster - Alpes & Jura Eight days of winter sports A whole year of health / Huit jours de sports d'hiver Toute une annee de sante - fea...
Category
1940s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Antique Swedish School, Teaching Chart, Poster "Male Pelvic Organs"
Located in Vienna, AT
Printed in Germany in 1950s
Dimensions: 120 x 80 cm. Age-related patina.
Category
1950s Swedish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Lithographic Poster, 'Alcazar d'été' , c. 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Early 20th Century Lithographic Poster, 'Alcazar d'été' , c. 1910
This is an original vintage poster which is linen backed for preservation. The overall condition is very good. This...
Category
1910s French Early Victorian Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Poster New Shell Lubricating Oil Great Success Artist Mannequin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for The New Shell Lubricating Oil It's A Great Success - featuring a fun design by the notable artist Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) of a sil...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Blood Donors Needed WWII Emergency Modernism Design
By Abram Games
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Blood donors are needed urgently to save lives Emergency blood transfusion service - featuring a modernist design by the notable British graphic designer Abram Games (Abraham Gamse; 1914-1996) depicting a dramatic illustration of a soldier wearing a military...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Porsche 356 Sports Car Opens The World Offnet Die Welt
By Hanns Lohrer
Located in London, GB
Original rare early vintage car advertising poster for Porsche - Offnet die Welt / Opens the World - featuring a bold graphic design by Hanns Lohrer (1912-199...
Category
1960s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1960 John James Audubon - American Flamingo Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Wonderful depicting "American Flamingo" by French-American painter and naturalist John James Audubon. Created in part of his "Birds of America" series between 1827 and 1838, the icon...
Category
1960s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1980 Blues Brothers Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Originating from a sketch on "Saturday Night Live", the iconic cult classic "The Blues Brothers" was released in 1980 to critical and commercial success. Starring Dan Aykroyd and the...
Category
1980s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Guernsey Sunshine Island Walter Spradbery
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster for Guernsey Sunshine Island featuring colourful artwork by Walter E. Spradbery (1889-1969) depicting a people...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Stolen Kisses 1969 Polish A1 Film Movie Poster, Zbikowski
Located in Bath, Somerset
Stolen Kisses 1969 Polish A1 film movie poster, Zbikowski
We love this original Polish film poster for François Truffaut's classic romcom Baisers volés (Stolen Kisses). Super pop ...
Category
20th Century Polish Posters
Materials
Paper
'The Terminator' Original Vintage Movie Poster by Milan Pecák, Czech, 1990
Located in Devon, GB
Along with Jakub Erol's stylized design for the Polish release, celebrated Czech artist Milan Pecák's imposing illustration of Arnold Schwarzenegger as 'The Terminator' is one of the...
Category
1990s Czech Post-Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
1997 Louis Vuitton Bagatelle - Razzia Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
The Louis Vuitton Bagatelle Concours d'Elegance is an annual event held in the Parc de Bagatelle in Paris, France beginning in 1988. This beautiful piece from 1997 depicts a Cistalia...
Category
1990s French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
'Eye' Poster Dress by Harry Gordon, Poster Dresses Ltd. London, England
Located in London, GB
1st edition 1968. 'Poster Dress - Eye', a disposable paper dress screen printed tissue, wood pulp and rayon mesh, with internal 'Poster Dresses' label, in...
Category
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster KaceBek Cigarettes Tobacco Imperial Russia
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster issued in Belgium to promote a Russian brand of cigarettes KaceBek / ??????? ????-??? manufactured in Imperial Russia before the 1917 October Revolution by Nakhimoff & Co. Great design featuring a hand tipping open a pack of cigarettes...
Category
Early 1900s Belgian Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Pioneer Diligent Student Discipline
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - A pioneer is a diligent student he is disciplined and polite - featuring an illustration ...
Category
1950s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Sport Poster 1926 Winter Games Schwarzwald Black Forest Germany
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport poster for the 1926 Black Forest Winter Fighting Games organised by the German Reich Committee for Physical Education - Deutsche Re...
Category
1920s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Sweden Skiing Travel Winter Sport Mountain Ski Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski travel poster for Sweden featuring a fun image of a smiling lady wearing a bright red, white and green dress with a head scarf and floral patterned gloves standi...
Category
1940s Swedish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Canadian National Railways A Home And Success In Canada
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster issued by the Colonization Department of Canadian National Railways - A Home and Success in Canada - featuring a homestead with farmland and mountains in the distance below a blue sky with smaller captioned illustrations featuring a train passing grain storage houses, a herd of dairy cows grazing on a green field, a man fishing to represent the outdoor sport activities available in Canada as well as work opportunities, sheep grazing in front of trees and a farmer with his beef cattle representing a profitable industry above an image of a CNR steam locomotive on train tracks through an open plain running towards the viewer, a man in work clothing and sun hat raising his arm to the information text - A Home and Success in Canada / Why not seek a new home on the land in Canada? In the World's Granary the best of land is cheap and a man may reasonably hope to work his way to independence - and contact details...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Bermuda Island Ocean View Sailing Beach Cycling
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Bermuda featuring a great illustration of two bikes parked along a seaside road next to pink flowers with people sunbathing under colourful sun umb...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Midnight Limited
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1926 silent action adventure film The Midnight Limited,
starring Gaston Glass and Wanda Hawley.
This film was directed by Oscar Apfel.
This beautiful ...
Category
1920s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Feet First
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still for the 1930 Harold Lloyd comedy Feet First.
This film was directed by Clyde Bruckman and Harold Lloyd.
This piec...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Original Vintage French Poster by Firmin Bouisset
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Early 20th century original vintage French poster by Firmin Bouisset
Firmin Bouisset was a French painter, poster artist and printmaker. This poster was created before the text was printed, it is advertising chocolate...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Movie Poster La Modelo Incognita Girl Of The Year Petty Girl
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for La Modelo Incognita / Girl of the Year - Design features Joan Caulfield's character wearing a leotard and ballet shoes laying back over the bold yel...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Railway Travel Poster Nach Wien Vienna City Architecture Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - To Vienna by train and post / Nach Wien Mit Bahn Und Post - featuring a stunning design showing a silhouette of an historic building and statue of a ...
Category
1950s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Thomas McKnight Serigraph
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Thomas McKnight serigraph. Artwork is 39" x 35". Framed measures 49" x 45.5" x 1.5". Acrylic cover has scratches and frame has chips, so reframing ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
BOAC Africa 1956 Travel Advertising Poster, Maurice Laban
Located in Bath, Somerset
We love this original 1950s BOAC poster advertising travel to Africa. Beautifully illustrated by Maurice Laban. Striking colours.
British Overseas Airways...
Category
20th Century British Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Gagarin Space Travel Horoscope USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - ? ????? ????? ????????? / And there will be a new constellation - featuring an illustration of a red USSR star on the blue background with horoscope constellations as block white Zodiac signs and a photograph of the Russian cosmonaut and first man in space...
Category
1970s Russian 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
1959 Cannes Film Festival Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
This poster for the 6th Cannes International Film Festival in 1959, held from June 9th to 13th in Cannes, France. The beautiful design is vibrant in colour with wonderful mid century...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Yuri Gagarin Soviet Cosmonaut Communist Party Glory USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Glory to the Son of the Party! / Сыну Партии - Слава! Great design depicting a black and white photo in front of a starry space sky background of a smiling Yuri Gagarin...
Category
1960s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1978 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Greek Theatre UC Berkeley Original Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Beautiful and rare poster created in promotion of the legendary Bob Marley & The Wailers concert at the Greek Theater at UC Berkeley in California, USA. The show was on July 21st 197...
Category
1970s American 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
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Tahiti New Caledonia Illustrated Route Map
By Hervé Baille
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Maritime Couriers / Messageries Maritimes Tahiti Island New Caledonia and Australia service m.s. Caledonien Tahit...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Sport Event Poster Raid Dei Laghi Enna Sicily Automobile Club
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport event poster for the VI Raid Dei Laghi motor race held by the Enna Automobile Club on 29 June 1970 featuring a great graphic design depicting three red sports cars racing around a white steering wheel as the road around a lake with white sketch illustrations of a duck in front of reeds, two fish and sailing boats on the blue water, the bold white lettering over a blue chronometer clock...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage French Art Deco Poster, 'Gourdant' by D Frapojut, Paris, 1933
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Artist:
D Frapojut
Year:
1933
Dimensions:
130 x 85cm
Condition:
Good condition
Format:
Linen backed.
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
”Unconquered” ”De Obesegrade” Cecil B. De Mille Film Poster, 1947
Located in Stockholm, SE
Original Swedish version of this movie poster. Some wear as seen on pictures. Unconquered is a 1947 adventure film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard...
Category
1940s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage French Advertising Poster 'Palais de L'Hippodrome Blaas Uit'
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage French advertising poster 'Palais de L'Hippodrome Blaas Uit’
This is an original lithograph which has been linen...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco 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
Art Deco Original French Poster, 'La Comete Liquor' c. 1920
By Joseph Hémard
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Art Deco Original French Poster, 'La Comete Liquor' c. 1920
ARTIST
Joseph Hémard
CONDITION
Good
FORMAT
Linen Backed
DIMENSIONS
61 x 80 cm
YEAR
c. 1920
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Godzilla vs Monster Zero R1971 Japanese B2 Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
The fantastic country-of-origin Japanese poster for Godzilla vs Monster Zero (aka Invasion of Astro Monster). Beautiful colours.
Japanese design typically features wonderful montage...
Category
20th Century Japanese Posters
Materials
Paper
"Piscina Di Sarteano" Original Vintage Poster, 1962
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A charming poster which was created to promote a swimming pool in Italy that was open to the public. It is designed with a crisp graphic style to convey a sense of relaxation and ele...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Peace To The People USSR Space Rocket
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - ??? ??????? / Peace to the People - featuring an illustration of three cosmonauts in a rocket marked with a Soviet star against a blue sta...
Category
1980s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1957 Campari, Fisanotti Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Campari was formed in 1860 by Gaspare Campari and the aperitif is as popular today as ever. His son, Davide Campari transformed the company in 1926 into what it is widely known for t...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Drink Poster Amaretto Di Saronno Liquor Gift Advertising Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Italian drink advertising poster for Amaretto di Saronno featuring an illustration of a square Murano designed glass bottle of the liqueur with a rose flower tied to...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage 1930s Travel Advertising Poster “Australia for Sun and Surf”
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster: Australia For Sun and Surf published by the Australian National Travel Association. Great design by the award winning architect and graphi...
Category
1930s Australian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster France Lorraine Metz Cathedral Stained Glass Windows Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for France Lorraine Metz Stained Glass Windows Of The Cathedral Jacques Villon / France La Lorraine Metz: Vitraux De La Cathedrale Jacques Villon featuring a colourful image of the modern stained glass window...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
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
'SCALA', Original Vintage Early 19th Century Ballet Theatre Poster
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'SCALA', Original Vintage Early 19th Century Ballet Theatre Poster
"The La Scala Theatre Ballet is the resident classical ballet company at La Scala in...
Category
Early 19th Century French Victorian Antique Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage LMS London Midland Scottish Railway Poster 5 Routes To Ireland
Located in London, GB
Rare original vintage LMS railway travel poster, 5 routes to Ireland, issued by the London Midland & Scottish Railway featuring a fantastic des...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Olympic Munich Games 1972, Original Poster
Located in Praha, CZ
- rare
- marked
- original
- can be framed and glazed.
Category
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
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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