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Posters For Sale
Period: Mid-20th Century
Period: 1950s
Period: 1940s
Born to be Bad
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1950 Film Noir directed by directed by Nicholas Ray and starred Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan and Mel Ferrer.
This poster is conservation linen backed an...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Stagecoach / Ombre Rosse
Located in London, GB
Exceptionally rare original Italian film poster for John Ford landmark 1939 Western starring John Wayne and. The art work on this poster is by Anselmo Ballester...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster North West England LMS Railway F Marston
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster issued by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway - LMS North West England - featuring scenic artwork of the Lake District by the British painte...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Great Escape
Located in London, GB
Original US studio release silver gelatin, single-weight, glossy finish photograph for John Sturges Classic 1963 war adventure starring Steve McQueen, James Coburn, James Garner, Ric...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Peter Max Toulouse Lautrec 2 Signed Pop Art Retro Vintage Lithograph Poster 1967
By Peter Max
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A psychedelic retro lithograph titled "Toulouse Lautrec 2" by iconic pop artist Peter Max. Hand signed in red felt tip marker on the mid bottom. Printed on premium paper and copyrigh...
Category
1960s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Federico Fellini's 8 1/2
Located in London, GB
Exceptionally rare original British film poster for the 1963 drama director Federico Fellini he used the title 8 1/2 as this was his 8 1/2 film projec...
Category
1960s English Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Sleeping Beauty
Located in London, GB
Original American film poster for Walt Disney's 1959 animation Sleeping Beauty. This is the Style B poster.
The poster is conservation linen backed and wo...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Roman Holiday
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1953 classic romantic comedy directed and produced by William Wyler, and stars Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Downhill Racer
Located in London, GB
Original US style B film poster for the 1969 skiing drama starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman and directed by Michael Ritchie.
This poster was designed by Steve Frankfurt (1931-201...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Motorsport Poster Mercedes Benz Grand Prix Italy Fangio Taruffi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motorsport poster published by Mercedes Benz to celebrate their Decisive Double Victory in the Grand Prix of Italy by its drivers - 1. World champion Juan Manuel Fan...
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Unholy Wife / La Femme et le Rodeur
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for The Unholy Wife 1957.
This film noir was directed and produced by John Farrow, and stars Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon and Beulah Bondi. Dors pla...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"Blow Up" Original Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original film poster for Michelangelo Antonioni's mystery thriller staring Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings. This poster was printed to me used at London's
ABC Cinema it was also i...
Category
1960s British Vintage Posters
The Birds
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 Horror, suspense film
The Birds. This film starred Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor.
This poster is unfolded and conservation paper bac...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'Le Mepris' Original Vintage French Movie Poster by Georges Allard, 1963
Located in Devon, GB
At the height of her fame, Brigitte Bardot is every inch the devastating screen siren on Georges Allard's sumptuous and sought after poster for the country of origin release of Jean-Luc Godard's masterful New Wave drama 'Le Mépris...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Ski Poster Pontresina Suisse Switzerland Resort
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport ski poster for the popular resort of Pontresina Suisse / Switzerland featuring a black and white photograph of a young boy standing on small curved skis...
Category
1930s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1961 Breakfast at Tiffany's Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Truly one of the most iconic poster designs of all time, this 1961 poster for Blake Edwards' romantic comedy "Breakfast at Tiffany's" features the timeless...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Train Driver Soviet Railway USSR
By V. Elkin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - I will be a train driver! / ???? ??????????! Great artwork of a young train driver in uniform operating the controls with a view towards m...
Category
1940s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Messageries Maritimes Far East Shipping English
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel to Asia poster - Visit the Far East by Messageries Maritimes - featuring artwork by Bernard Lachevre (1885-1950) of an ocean liner at night with the on...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Located in London, GB
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Original US One Sheet (27 X 41 Inches)
This is the "Moonbase" 70 MM style B one sheet for the ground-breaking Stanley Kubrick science fiction classic. T...
Category
1960s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Railway Travel Poster England Southern Railway Royal Guards Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway travel poster - Visit England State Railways and Southern Railway Paris St Lazare London / Visitez l'Angleterre Chemins...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Birds
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 Horror, suspense film
The Birds. This film starred Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor.
This poster is conservation linen backed and ...
Category
1960s English Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Visit The Arab States Africa Middle East Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Visit the Arab States - featuring illustrations of iconic architecture and ancient and historical monuments including the Pillars of the Temple of Ju...
Category
1960s Egyptian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Located in London, GB
Original American film poster for the 1958 drama staring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman.
This film was directed by Richard Brooks.
This poster is cons...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Olivetti Divisumma 24 Calculating Machine
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Olivetti Divisumma 24 calculating machine model featuring a great mid-century graphic design depicting numbers and symbols on rubber stamp...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Go West
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still for the American comedy Go West directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx.
Thi...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Movie Poster for French Movie: "Marry Me! Marry Me!", 1969
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Movie Poster for French Movie: "Marry Me! Marry Me!"
Allied Artists, 1969
"great color and graphic"
"everything he touched turned to marriage."
" 1968 French comedy film Marry Me!...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster The Beatles Yellow Submarine Music Film Psychedelic Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for the 1968 animated musical film Yellow Submarine starring the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band based on a song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney depicting an image of the iconic yellow submarine with psychedelic artwork by the German illustrator and designer Heinz Edelmann (1934-2009) featuring colourful cartoon characters of The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr), the Blue Meanies...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Mark of Zorro / Il Segno Di Zorro
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1940 adventure romance film The Mark of Zorro.
This film was directed by Rouben Mamoulian The cast includes Tyrone Power...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage SNCF Railway Travel Poster "Visit France Brittany" by Train
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster: Visit France Brittany – Take our Trains and Coaches / "Visitez la France Bretagne" Prenez nos trains et nos autocars. Grea...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Union Travel Poster USSR Dance Festival Intourist Zhukov
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the USSR Dance Festival Moscow - Leningrad 10-20 June 1936 commissioned by Intourist, the Soviet state travel monop...
Category
1930s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Located in London, GB
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Original British Quad (30 X 40 Inches)
"Well, nobody's perfect!" Maybe not, but this classic comedy had the perfect last line from Joe E. Brown. The American...
Category
1950s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Goldfinger
Located in London, GB
Original US photographic production still from James Bond's Goldfinger 1964. This was the 3rd James Bond film and the 3rd time Sean Connery played 007. This piece is conservation fra...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Philadelphia Story
Located in London, GB
Original colour studio promotional photograph for the classic 1940 comedy
starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart.
This piece is conservation framed with in a Tuli...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Pink Floyd UFO Poster
Located in Faversham, GB
A wonderful poster advertising three concerts in February and March 1967 at London’s seminal hippy hangout, UFO Club.
The club was on Tottenham Court Road in London and this poster promotes concerts featuring Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, and the Brothers Grimm.
This poster was designed by Michael English...
Category
1960s British Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Art Glass, Wood, Paper
Original vintage Polish movie poster 1966 "Panie i Panowie"
Located in Brønshøj, DK
Original vintage Polish movie poster, for the Italian-French Grand Prix-winning movie: Signore e Signori (In english: ´The birds, the bees and the Italian...
Category
1960s Polish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Porsche Car Racing International Success
By Eric Strenger
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster celebrating the success of Porsche cars - Porsche meldet weitere internationale Erfolge / reports further international successes - featuring a wh...
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Golden Ray Air Union Paris London Art Deco Maurus
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Paris London Golden Ray Air Union - featuring a stunning Art Deco design by Edmond Maurus (1903-1977) depicting a Liore et Olivier LeO 21 biplane pla...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'Some like It Hot' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Hungarian, 1965
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
1960s Hungarian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Once Upon a Time in the West
Located in London, GB
This cool original US film poster is for the 1969 Western Once Upon a Time in the West. This film had a great cast including Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards and Charles...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1969 Led Zeppelin, Country Joe & the Fish - Fillmore West Original Vintage Poste
By Randy Tuten
Located in Winchester, GB
Designed by the legendary concert poster artist Randy Tuten with D. Bread and Peter Pynchon, this beautiful poster was created in 1969 to promote a live concert of Country Joe & The Fish, Led Zeppelin and Taj Mahal 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 and Santana. Tuten's poster design is particularly notable for being such a departure from the many other concert, and even Led Zeppelin posters...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Decorative Vintage Print, Dutch Chart of Australia, 1st Edition, 1952
Located in Langweer, NL
The vintage school chart of Australia titled "Australië," created by W. Bakker & H. Rush and published in 1952:
**Title**: Australië
**Creators**: W. Bakker & H. Rush
**Publication ...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Posters
Materials
Canvas
Inlaid Marquetry Picture of a Sailboat
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
A boxwood marquetry wooden panel depicting a sailboat, framed.
Origin: English
Date: Circa 1940
Item Number: 3107248
Category
Mid-20th Century English Posters
Materials
Boxwood
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Located in London, GB
Original US Lobby card number 7 for Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard's classic 1961 romance. This film was directed by Blake Edwards.
The piece is conse...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Bonnie and Clyde
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster from Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway's 1967 crime romance directed by Arthur Penn. This poster is conservation linen backed and it would be shipped rolled...
Category
1960s English Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Sign of the Cross
Located in London, GB
Original US black and white photographic production still for the 1932 film The Sign of the Cross.
This still was sent out to newspapers to advertise the re...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Bourgogne Burgundy Wine SNCF Railway France
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster for Bourgogne / Burgundy issued by the National Society of French Railways SNCF Societe Nationale Des Chemins De Fer Francais featuring artwork b...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"The Man with the Golden Arm" Original US Film Poster
By Saul Bass
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster.
Saul Bass was born in New York. Bass was a rotund, jovial character. After studying at the Art Students League and graduating from Brooklyn College, he moved west at the age of 26, and is credited with introducing an East Coast sensibility to marketing. He saw advertising as a means for funding his passion for the movies, and after 6 years working with a number of agencies, he finally had the funds to establish his own. All this time, he was forging ever-closer links with the film industry, and in 1954 this led to a commission from Otto Preminger to design the poster for Carmen Jones. The following year the director invited the artist to work on The Man With The Golden Arm...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for the 1969 classic western staring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katherine Ross. This film was directed by George Roy Hill. This size poster would have...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Washington American Airlines McKnight Kauffer USA
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Washington American Airlines - featuring fantastic artwork by one of the most renowned poster artists of the 20th century Edward McKnight...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Union Propaganda Poster Kazakhstan Anniversary KSSR USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Do you fulfill your obligations in honour of the 25th anniversary of the Kazakh SSR? - featuring an army soldier in military uniform point...
Category
1940s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Movie Poster How To Steal Million Audrey Hepburn Peter O'Toole
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for the original release of the romantic crime comedy How To Steal a Million directed by William Wyler and starrin...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vogue Magazine September 1963 Framed Cover
By David Bailey
Located in Stamford, CT
Vogue September 1963 framed original cover. Model Brigitte Bauer photographed by David Bailey. As found framed condition in gold wood frame.
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Original Vintage Kitchen Poster, Butane Propane Gas, c.1950
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster-Vox-Btagaic-Butane-Propane-Gas, c.1950
Additional Details:
Materials and Techniques: Colour lithograph on paper
Size: 31.5 x 47.2 in / 80 x 120 cm
Printe...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage London Underground Poster To The Fields Betty Swanwick TfL
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Transport poster - To the Fields - featuring colourful spring time artwork by the English artist, novelist, art teacher and head of illustration at Goldsmiths...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1960 TWA - New York Original Vintage Poster
By David Klein
Located in Winchester, GB
This poster was created in 1960 for Howard Hughes’ Trans World Airlines promoting their routes to New York. Illustrated by influential American artist David Klein, this design featur...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, 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...
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1960s Romanian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Go West
Located in London, GB
This is a ver rare original Japanese film poster for The 1940 Comedy Go West This film was directed by Edward Buzzell and starred Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx.
This poster...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
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
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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