Antique French Biscuit Poster

Revivify is to make something strong and healthy again. That's what we do here at the Montage workshop in Connecticut. I have included some before pictures to illustrate how far we went with this 1940s Paul Frankl D chair...

An Antique Neapolitan terra cotta planter adorned with festoons and lion heads. This attractive planter would make a stunning addition to your garden, window box, out on your deck, o...

Purchased at a vintage market outside of Paris, these chairs were brought back to a Connecticut estate where we found them and took them to our workroom for restoration. We ebonized ...

Used during warmer months to cover the opening of a fireplace, this rare, 19th Century French fireplace screen retains its antique original fabric. The design is identical on both si...

"The Old Jack Old Rum Rhumprat estilo Jamaica", Bonaparte, Reclamos Vilaró, Barcelona Original Rum advertising poster, Spain, 1920s Rhumprat- The Old...

Original 1930s French Art Deco poster, artwork by Fabrice Mory, published by Chaix, France, circa 1935. This is a vintage original on linen and has been professionally framed under g...

Original vintage midcentury French 'Campari Soda' poster by Mingozzi, 1950 This original vintage lithograph poster epitomizes the opulent 1950s era. Th...

Original, midcentury poster dated 1975 from Gallerie Lovreglio in Nice, France. Signed by the artist Jean Messagier (1920-1999), multi-faceted artist. Measures: 17" W × 1" D × 24" H "Like the meanders of the Doubs so dear to Jean Messagier, the furrows that the artists on the paths of art history are sometimes complex and tortuous. Messagier, famous since the 1950s, exhibited all over the world, a friend of painters, rockstars and poets, began the 1980s with a retrospective exhibition at the Grand Palace (Paris) which then marks, paradoxically, the beginning of a certain forgetfulness. The reasons are many times that today the work of this immense artist is partly forgotten, in all unknown cases, and is probably the object of a misunderstanding. Messagier, abstract? Arise then these images of colorful tracery, this so-called "tile washer" painting, which was, he, is true, that of her first successes and her consecration, but which is only one of facets of a gigantic and protean work that has endlessly put itself in danger and to reinvent herself. The object of the retrospective imagined at the Musée de Dole in 2019 is clearly to show that Messagier was working beyond the issues of figuration and of abstraction, in an urgency to paint, to draw, to create, which has as principal obsession to respond to the cruel creativity of nature. Messagier, springtime specialist, ecologist almost before the hour, experimenter of frost painting winter, poet of the sap and pollen, draws his breath in that, vital, libidinal of nature. It's the same energy that pushed him to touch everything, with a freedom and a lack of interest manifest for opinion or criticism. It does not matter if we say crazy - on the contrary - Messagier the almost American abstract painter never finished with the figure or the figuration and allowed herself as early as the 1970s to both summon images from the popular culture like Goldorak, the Marsupilami, Betty Boop, glamorous figures like Lady Di or Greta Garbo, to jostle her masters by quoting Delacroix, Matisse, Picasso ... with total irreverence. These years 1970-1980, where will face jovial triviality, fried eggs, radishes, a thousand giant leafs...