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1.
Absinthe J. Edouard Pernot
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If Cheret is the Father of the poster, then Cappiello should be called the Father of the Modern Poster. For through the Italian-born artist, who created posters in Paris for 40 years, had clear antecedents in his style, he had an entirely original approach to the means of portraying the advertising message. To arrest the attention of the passerby and to indelibly etch an image in his mind - that was Cappiello's mission.
By means of wide color planes and highly exaggerated colors and situations, he shocked, surprised, and moved. His posters can be said to be fantastic - in the literal sense. Beginning with an ordinary caricature-style poster for the magazine "Frou-Frou" in 1899, he went on to create over 1,000 posters in the next 40 years.
In this poster, the gentleman is waiting, with a smirk, for the lady's reaction to her first sip of absinthe -- a humorous approach characteristic of Cappiello's early career in caricature.
Date: 1902
Price:
$350.00
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Architectuur/Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is arguably America's most famous and influential architect. Designed in 1931 by Hendrikus T. Wijdeveld (1885-1987) for the Amsterdam showing of a traveling exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright's work, which toured the U.S. and Europe in 1930-31, this typographical construction illustrates a style of type called Wendingen and helped bring Frank Lloyd Wright's work to the attention of the European public. Wijdeveld was a master of the constructivist school, his particular specialty being angular lettering which he designed separately for each poster, and which he could weave into intriguing patterns that virtually mesmerize us when we read them.
Date: 1931
Price:
$150.00
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Art of Tennis
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Although the artist is unknown, this charming poster, created originally around 1900, was used to advertise a film that gave instructions (at "normal" speed and in slow motion) about how to play tennis. It was shown at movie theaters throughout England.
Date: 1900
Price:
$150.00
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Artistide Brunt dans son Cabaret
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Among his early patrons was Artistide Bruant, a rough-hewn entertainer who owned the Mirliton, one of Toulouse-Lautrec's favorite haunts; Bruant exhibited his work, published some of it in his magazine (also called "Le Mirliton"), and later gave him poster assignments.
According to Jack Rennert; "A complete listing of Toulouse-Lautrec's works contain over a thousand items and only about 30 of them are posters; yet in this small output there are masterpieces whose power is just as strong today as when they were drawn. It's in the incisive way he sees his subjects, giving us sharp character sketches, often accompanied by social commentary, with wit insight and wisdom. He stages his compositions with the eye of a painter, then draws them with the skill of a caricaturist to extract the essence of a personality."
Date: 1893
Price:
$250.00
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Au Bon Marche
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Rene Vincent (1879-1936) was for many years an illustrator for humor and fashion magazines, and didn't begin creating posters until his forties. Once he did, however, he was most prolific. Along with his many automobile posters, especially notable are the posters for the Bon Marche department store which he designed between 1925 and 1932. All combine humor and elegance, and not uncommonly feature a svelte, fashionable woman in the sleek new styles of the day. Jean Cocteau recalled him as "the most refined man I ever met." This poster is for a bathing costume at a resort.
Date: 1925
Price:
$250.00
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Bar Riche
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After studies in Munich, Hans Rudi Erdt (1883-1918) moved to Berlin in 1908 and for a ten year period created a large body of highly individual posters that rank among the finest produced in that country.
Expressive individuals and a sure sense of composition, usually with bright, flat color contrasts, are the hallmark of Erdt's poster style. The gentleman in formal attire standing in front of the bar at the Bar Riche is a perfect example of the individualistic style.
Date: 1907
Price:
$350.00
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Berliner Secession III
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The Secession was a movement started by a group of Viennese artists in 1987 who were dissatisfied with the policies of their art association. Most young adherents to art nouveau (which in German speaking countries was called Jugendstil), wanted more cross-pollination with foreign art trends. When they were rebuffed, their spokesman Gustav Klimt formed a splinter art group calling itself The Secession. T.T. Heine, 1867-1948, created this poster for the third exhibition of the Berlin branch of the movement.
Date: 1901
Price:
$250.00
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Bieres de la Meuse
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The jovial beer drinker has her long
flowing tresses adorned with some
appropriate beer ingredients, including
barley stalks and green hops, and field
poppy flowers indigenous to
northeastern France. This is another
one of Mucha's characteristic designs
featuring a beauty, semi-circular and
circular motifs, and artfully meandering
hair.
Date: 1897
Price:
$300.00
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Biscuits Lefevre-Utile
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One of Mucha's most winsome beauties, sporting a profusion of
flower-adorned blonde hair, offers
a plateful of biscuits ... All of the firm's designs featured the initials LU somewhere, and in this case
they are incorporated into the
golden arch which protrudes into
the picture. The girl's dress has a
pattern of sickles and wheat, and
she even has some wheat stalks in
her hair, the better to indicate the
origin of the product."
(Lendl/Paris).
Date: 1897
Price:
$300.00
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Brasserie Lengrand
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Date: 1927
Price:
$300.00
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Bruant au Mirliton
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Among his early patrons was Aristide Bruant, a rough-hewn entertainer who owned the Mirliton, one of Toulouse-Lautrec's favorite haunts; Bruant exhibited his work, published some of it in his magazine (also called ""e Mirliton"", and later gave him poster assignments.
According to Jack Rennert; "A complete listing of Toulouse-Lautrec's works contain over a thousand items and only about 30 of them are posters; yet in this small output there are masterpieces whose power is just as strong today as when they were drawn. It's in the incisive way he sees his subjects, giving us sharp character sketches, often accompanied by social commentary, with wit insight and wisdom. He stages his compositions with the eye of a painter, then draws them with the skill of a caricaturist to extract the essence of a personality."
Date: 1930
Price:
$250.00
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Bugatti
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A celebrator of elegance, Rene Vincent (1879-1936) drew style-conscious people in beautiful settings and created images for upscale stores, prestige cars, sporting goods and fashionable resorts. Smart, sleek and sophisticated designs are Vincent's trademark. He was not afraid, 'however, of adding an element of humor when that suited the situation and he never took himself (or his clients too seriously.
Born in Milan, Ettore Bugatti started designing and building cars at an early age, mainly while working as a free-lance associate with the Deutz car works in cologne in Germany; at the start of World War I in 1914, he moved to France where he lived for the rest of his life. His designs for cars were always about elegance. The car in this Vincent poster is the T46 model.
Date: 1930
Price:
$375.00
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Canadian Pacific/Orient
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Between 1918 and the start of World War II,
the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
greatly expanded its services on the Pacific.
Numerous posters terming the line the
largest and fastest to the Orient lured the
public East. Here, one of the company's
vessels makes its way into a harbor filled
with tattered junks. The scene is a study in
picturesque contrasts -- fast and slow, old
and new, east and west -- all bathed in the
setting sun's golden glow.
Date: 1924
Price:
$300.00
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Carpentier Chocolat
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Date: 1895
Price:
$300.00
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Champagne de Castellane
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Price:
$300.00
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Charlie Chaplin, A Dog's Life
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If a poll were taken to determine the single most influential individual in the entire history of the cinema, there would be no doubt who would receive the greatest number of votes. It would have to be Charlie Chaplin, who started making films in 1914 (prior to the filming of "The Birth of a Nation"), and swiftly became the single most popular performer.
This was a time when performers such as Chaplin could make dozens of films in a single year. His popularity became so great that virtually every theater included one of his films on their programs.
Chaplin has a vision of bigger and more elaborate films. He kept switching studios, gaining more and more control over the making of his films. After he made the multiple-reel film "A Dog's Life," he forever left short films behind. "A Dog's Life," which was made by First National, paid Chaplin one million dollars to produce each film - an astounding amount in 1918. This film made Coogan a star.
In one of his first films, Chaplin improvised a character, The Tramp, who came to star in more and more of Chaplin's films, and has become indelibly linked with Chaplin. Chaplin performed as The Tramp in all of his silent feature films.
Date: 1918
Price:
$350.00
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Chat Noir
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The "Chat Noir" was a theater-restaurant and describes the troupe's presentation of plays, poetry, readings and songs. The owner of the Cabaret was an early supporter of Steinlen. The direct stare of the Cat is meant to convey the characteristics of the true Parisian cat as well as the people who frequented the Cabaret, who lived in the Monmartre section of Paris.
Steinlen was born in 1859 and is an important figure for the color revolution - not only for developing an audience for color printing in general, but also for producing some of the strongest color lithographic posters and prints of the period. He died in 1941.
Date: 1896
Price:
$275.00
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Chateau Roubaud, Vin Rose
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Leon Dupin was born around 1900. In 1929, he began working at the lithography atelier of Joseph Charles. This engagingly celebratory image, toasting the good life, is typical of the graphic images that Dupin produced in Paris during the 1930's
This image shows Dupin's skill in lithography by utilizing the same form three different ways to create transparency in the figure.
His work is shown in the poster book "Quard l'Affiche Faisait de la Reclaime."
Date: 1931
Price:
$350.00
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Chocolate Amatller --Barcelona Centenario de la Casa
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Date: 1900
Price:
$300.00
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Chocolate Amatller. Barcelona
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The Instituto Italiano de A.G. Bergam
published this image on a marketing post
card for the product.
Date: 1899
Price:
$300.00
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El Siglo. Exposicion & Venta
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Two extremely well-dressed women
admire some peacock-pattern
material. The influence of Cappielo
can be seen in this fine design.
Date: 1905
Price:
$300.00
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Exactitude
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Fix-Masseau worked closely with the noted artist Cassandre in the period 1926-28, and his influence is seen in this poster creased in 1932. His father was Pierre-Felix Fix-Masseau the noted sculptor. This poster depicting the French State (ETAT) Railways was so popular with collectors and institutions, that it became impossible for the artist to find one even for himself. So to satisfy their requests, he kept redrawing his maquette, the original of which he has lost years earlier. About six of these painting are in museums including the Pompidou Center, the Musee de L'Affiche in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York (where it is currently on exhibit). Even at the inaugural exhibition of the Musee de L'Affiche, it was a subsequent painting and not the original poster that was exhibited.
Date: 1932
Price:
$300.00
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Firestone Bikers
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$150.00
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Gustav Klimt-Secession
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During the past decade, the alluring art of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) has gained a renewed and wide popularity; his decorative style, jewel-like colors and sensuous line seduce the modern viewer much as they did his contemporaries in turn-of-the-century Vienna. Klimt's artistic achievement and his role in the evolution of 20th century are have made him, with Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, one of Austria's three greatest modern artists.
Behind the dazzling façade of Klimt's art lay a passionate commitment not only to the progress of painting, but to its relevance for society. Werner Hofmann, director of the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, and formerly head of the Museum of 20th Century Art in Vienna, in his bio "Gustav Klimt," traced Klimt from his defection from the sham neo-classical world of the Academy to his founding of the revolutionary Secessionist group in 1897, which sought an interaction of all the arts with life. As one of their manifestos stated, "We recognize no distinctions between High Art and Minor Art or between art for the rich and art for the poor. Art is common property."
The "Kiss," his most noted work, was exhibited in 1908, the peak of his "golden period"
Date: 1903
Price:
$100.00
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Guy Buffet - Billiards (Limited Edition Silk Screen)
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Price:
$550.00
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Guy Buffet - Cafe de la Paix (Limited Edition Silk Screen)
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Price:
$550.00
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Guy Buffet - The Finish Line (Limited Edition Silk Screen)
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Price:
$550.00
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Hinde-Rywielen
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Van Caspel created only a few posters, and a couple of them, including "Hinde- Rywielen" have become classics. The first poster designed by Van Caspel, for the machine and bicycle factory De Hinde, was an immediate success and became the example of Dutch poster art in various foreign collections. The poster's flat unadorned patterns and bright simplicity echo the solitary enjoyment of bicycling. Van Caspel (1870-1928) was a portrait painter and furniture designer as well as a poster artist. Recently his posters toured museums in Holland, where he is regarded as the pioneer of Dutch poster art.
Date: 1896
Price:
$400.00
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Horseman
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The "Horseman" created in 1919, is typical of the De Stijl movement, one of the major design movements of styles, including Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, Art Deco and arts and crafts.
De Stijl, "the style" was the most cerebral and idealistic of the abstract movements founded in 1917 by the Dutch painters Mondrian and von Doesburg and the architect J.J. Pieter Oud.
Mondrian wrote that "to create pure reality, it is necessary to reduce natural forms to constant elements of form and natural color to primary color. The aim is not to create other forms and colors, but to work towards abolishing them in the interest of a larger unity."
High-minded ideals of absolute purity, harmony and sobriety inspired all the De Stijl artists.
Date: 1919
Price:
$250.00
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Hunde-Ausftellung
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This charming dachshund was the model for a "dog exhibition" held in Berlin in 1905. The top line explains the entrance fee; the name of the sponsoring hunting group and the date, time and address are all described. The very last line instructs attendees about where to buy their ticket and program - from the "gun man" at the "castle," including the address! Note the prize-winning medal!
Date: 1905
Price:
$275.00
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Hunde-Ausstellung (Whippet)
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Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949) began his career as an architect and evolved into Germany's most prolific poster artist for both advertising and military posters. His extensive career spanned both World Wars.
One of Germany's most influential posterists, Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949)
Date: 1912
Price:
$275.00
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I Want You
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James Montgomery Flagg was an American born in New York in 1877. He began drawing for magazines at twelve years old and studied in New York, London and Paris. He illustrated several books and created 46 war posters. He died in 1960.
Designed in 1917 by James Montgomery Flagg, this image is considered among the best known posters of all time. It is a self portrait and was originally used on the cover of Leslie magazine, where James Montgomery Flagg worked as an illustrator.
Date: 1917
Price:
$275.00
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Invisible Man
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This one-sheet poster is the advance of 'teaser" image, which was distributed and displayed prior to the film's release.
James Whale took H.G. Wells' classic novel "The Invisible Man" and turned it into an accomplished fantasy film. With a lead part no actor could relish. The actor's face was to be either bandaged or invisible until the closing moments when his dead face would be seen. The producers wisely looked for an actor with a wonderful voice and found an unknown actor, Claude Rains, who went to a long and distinguished career in film and theater.
According to Universal's promotional materials, Boris Karloff had been selected for the leading role in "The Invisible Man," but Claude Rains went from stage star to movie star in his first film "appearance." The novel the movie was based on was written by HG Wells. It was directed by James Whale, the director of "Frankenstein."
"The Invisible Man" was so popular, it became a series including: "The Invisible Man Returns" (1940), "The Invisible Women" (1940), "Invisible Agent" (1942), and "The Invisible Man's Revenge" (1944).
"Half scientific, half fantastic, all thrilling story of a man who found the mans to make himself invisible?and used it to create a reign of terror!" from promotional materials and ads in 1932-1933.
Date: 1933
Price:
$300.00
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J.C. Boldoot - Eau de Cologne Parfumerie - Amsterdam
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Privat Livemont was born in Schaerbeek, Brussels, 1861; he died in Schaerbeek, 1936. He began his studies at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs at Saint-Josse-ten-Noodle and, in 1883, he won a scholarship to study in Paris, where he remained for six years. While in Paris, Livemont worked painting architectural decorations and stage designs and studied evenings with Delaporte at the Ecole Etienne-Marcel. He returned to his native Schaerbeek in 1889 to begin a career as a painter and printmaker, and in 1890 created what would become the first of thirty posters which he would design by the year 1900.
The Poster magazine of August/September 1898 devoted a major article to the work of this great Belgian art nouveau designer.
It had been insinuated that Privat Livemont was a continuator, or rather an imitator of mucha. This concept has been dispelled however, and Livemont is viewed as an artist ever seeking original ideas, a lover of his art, and so sure of his own powers that he can rely on himself for inspiration.
Livemont was a virtuoso poster lithographer, always drawing the image on the stone himself. Women were almost his sole subject, and he created a type to which he remained faithful: with heavy eyelids and straight lashes, heart-shaped mouth, long tresses strewn with soft flowers or restrained by a startling hair ornament, rich gowns with diaphanous sleeves, slender fingernails -- nails filed to a point -- beautifully advertising a product.
Date: 1899
Price:
$350.00
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Jack Johnson vs. Arthur Craven
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The artist who captured the historic meeting of Jack Johnson and Arthur Craven in 1916 is unknown. The poster is translated as follows: PLAZA OF THE MONUMENTAL BULLS
SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1916 3:00PM
GREAT FESTIVAL OF BOXING In which you will find 6 interesting contenders in which notables, 6
JACK JOHNSON = ARTHUR CRAVAN
Ending this spectacular with the sensational encounter of the champion of the world.
JACK JOHNSON Black-110 Kilos And the European Champion
ARTHUR CRAVAN White-105 Kilos
In this match there will be a prize of 50,000 pesetas for the winner.
See program.
Not only does Jack Johnson rate among the most significant ring personalities of the modern era, but also among the most fascinating. Jack Johnson was the first African
American to win the world heavy weight title.
The son of a janitor, Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas, on March 31, 1878. At age 12, and facing little more than the hard life of the Galveston docks, Johnson ran
away from home. He was hardly an instant success and before he established himself, there were many homeless nights and empty pockets, and enough injustice to create a
hard, bitter man.
The greatest fights of Johnson's career came before he won the world title. His chief rivals were a trio of Black fighters who, had they fought in any era but their
own, would surely have been world champions. Johnson won what was called the Black heavyweight title in February 1903.
John L. Sullivan, the first modern-era heavyweight champion, refused to defend against Black contenders, and his successors followed the tradition. Nevertheless, after
Tommy Burns dethroned Marvin Hart, Johnson's manager campaigned for a try at the heavyweight title and it became popular belief that Burns was avoiding a fight with
Johnson.
Burns finally agreed to face Johnson. Johnson combined speed, strength, and punching power as no heavyweight ever had and Burns was badly outclassed. In round 14 the
fight was stopped. Boxing had its first Black heavyweight champion.
A prominent New York sportscaster called for the former champion James Jeffries to "remove that golden smile from Jack Johnson's face." That sentiment would grow during
Johnson's reign and after each of his victories, there would be inner city race riots and lynching of blacks.
On July 4, 1910, Johnson fought Jeffries, who had become "The Great White Hope." Johnson won a 15th round victory.
In 1911, Johnson married his second wife who committed suicide one year later. In 1913, he was convicted of violating the Mann Act for having transported Belle
Schrieber, who was white, from Pittsburgh to Chicago "for immoral purposes." He was sentenced to one year in prison, but jumped bail and traveled to Europe.
Johnson, 37, eventually agreed to defend against yet another White Hope, Jess Willard, in Havana, Cuba, on April 5, 1915. The fight promoter had baited the champion by
hinting that federal authorities might provide a pardon, especially if Johnson were to return to the States without the title.
In the 26th round, Johnson was counted out. Whether Johnson threw the fight or not will remain a topic of debate for the ages. The promoter had not secured a deal, and
after Johnson returned to the U.S. mainland in July 1920, he was taken to Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas where he served nine months. The Johnson vs. Craven fight
took place in Europe during this period. Although he was despised by White America, he was adored in Europe. He returned to the ring and fought his last pro fight at
age 50. Johnson died at age 68 in a car accident.
The movie "The Great White Hope" was based on Jack Johnson's life story.
Date: 1916
Price:
$325.00
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King Kong
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The virtuoso animation of Willis O'Brian dazzled the audiences when "King Kong' premiered in 1933. Decades later, the film continues to amaze audiences who marvel at the humanity the King Kong possesses.
Although the artist who created this classic movie poster is unknown, it is among the most important and beloved movie posters of all time.
"King Kong' combines the most important elements one looks for in a movie poster - it is from a classic film; it is a magnificent art work; and it depicts the most memorable scene in the film - one of the most remembered images in movie history.
The few "King Kong" vintage posters of this image that are known to have survived, are in very bad condition due to folds, tears, and paper deterioration. Yet, in spite of bad condition, auction prices for this image exceed $100,000. The "King Kong poster is in perfect condition and is printed on three sheets, exactly the size and the way the movie poster was printed in 1933.
Date: 1933
Price:
$1,350.00
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La Maison Moderne (Blue Lady)
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Emmanuel Orazi was a native of Rome who spent most of his adulthood in Paris as a graphic and decorative artist. Starting in 1892, he supplied illustrations to various magazines including Paris-Noel, Le Ficaro Illustre and L'Assiette au Beurre, starting in 1892.
He began a long term working relationship with the prestigious art and home decor store, La Maison Moderne, for whom he designed jewelry - as well as one of his best posters.
Julius Meier-Graefe's La Maison Modems, opened in 1899, was a competitor of Bing's Maison de l'Art Nouveau. For it, Orazi created one of the most arrestingly beautiful of all Art Nouveau posters. Using orange, blue and green tints, he gives us a sinuously elegant model set in a serene background. Composed brilliantly so that the line running from the top of her head to the tip of her sleeve almost forms a third arm to the chair.
In addition to the pottery, glass and lamps sold in the shop, the model advertises jewelry. At her neck is a brooch with baroque pearls, and in her hair are shown two of the combs (one is adorned with an alligator) made from tortoiseshell or horn, which were so necessary to control the elaborate coiffures then in fashion.
Orazi was a master lithographer and brilliant colorist; his posters can be savored as much for their brilliant design as for their technical perfection.
Date: 1900
Price:
$450.00
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Larranaga Cigars
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"French advertising art between the wars was led by a "gang of four" (Loupot, Cassandre, Colin and Carlu) who distinguished themselves and their medium in almost everything they created. Carlu was probably the one with the most direct Cubist influence and who gave the clearest theory of the graphic expression of the idea. In France, he is best known for his Air France and Mon Savon posters and in the United States he is best remembered for his war mobilization posters. Carlu was honored with a retrospective at the Musee de I" Affiche in Paris,
This poster was designed for the British firm of Larranaga, which was an importer of Havana cigars. This poster is considered one of Carlu's best and has become one of the rarest. The Larranaga brand is still produced in Costa Rica from seeds from Havana."
Date: 1929
Price:
$300.00
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Le Café Martin
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Created in 1929 during the peak of his creativity, 'Cafe Le Martin' is an example of the artist's skill in lithography as well as clearly demonstrating why he is
considered a master colorist.
Charles Loupot was born in 1892. After being wounded in World War 1, he joined his parents in Geneva and began to work in lithography. His first poster dates back to
1917. In 1923, Loupot moved to Paris and was commissioned by "La Gazette due bon Ton" and "Femina" based on his experience as a fashion posterist and illustrator His
two posters for Voisin automobiles were immediately successful.
He was given the prestigious assignment of designing the poster for the famed 1925 Decorative Arts Exhibition. This important exhibition gave the Art Deco movement its
name and helped it dominate applied arts for the next decade. From 1925 to 1930 he became the art director of 'Les Belles Affiches' where he created numerous designs,
among them "Le Cafe Martin."
During the period 1930 to 1934, the two greatest advertising artists of the day, Cassandra and Loupot, worked under the name Alliance Graphique. Loupot also continued
to maintain his personal clientele. One of his most important clients was the great industrialist Eugene Schueller, who commissioned posters for products including
Monsavon and Dop shampoo.
After World War II, he continued his work for Alliance Graphique and also became the art director for 'Les Arcs.'
The retrospective exhibition of Charies Loupot's posters at the Musee de I'Affiche in Paris in 1979, created renewed interest and appreciation of this artist's work.
Date: 1929
Price:
$300.00
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Les Chansonniers de Montmarte
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Artistide Bruant was a strong, forceful entertainer of intimate, chic cabarets - the kind of places where fashionable society went "slumming". Bruant created "La Chanson Realiste" - he spoke his songs (most of which he wrote himself) more than actually singing them. His famboyant presence and the defiant, social and political lyrics were more effective than the quality of his voice. The title of Lautrec's posters, "Les Chansonniers de Montmartre," refers to the satirical singers of Monmartre.
Lautrec catches the almost brutal quality of the performer and the disdain with which he treated his audiences by having him show us the broad of his back, with the red scarf forming what appears to be an exclamation point. It is widely agreed that this is one of Lautrec's most important images.
According to Jack Rennert. "A complete listing of Toulouse-Lautrec's works contain over a thousand items and only about 30 of them are posters; yet in this small output there are masterpieces whose power is just as strong today as when they were drawn. It's in the incisive way he sees his subjects, giving us sharp character sketches, often accompanied by social commentary, with wit insight and wisdom. He stages his compositions with the eye of a painter, then draws them with the skill of a caricaturist to extract the essence of a personality.
Date: 1893
Price:
$475.00
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Les Cycles Wonder - Giclee Print
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A wonderful giclee print of this beautiful poster.
Price:
$300.00
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Marco-Polo Thee Salon
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Although the artist is unknown, this poster was created to achieve a completely different look from the Art Nouveau posters of the time. The exaggerated, but simple, clean lines, with no ornamentation, was a simplification of the composition of that era. The artist used a minimum of simplification of the composition of that era. The artist used a minimum of detail and selected or created type that would accentuate the strong, lean look of the elegant model.
Date: 1905
Price:
$250.00
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Maurin Quina le Puy
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Price:
$300.00
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Mercedes
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During the automobile's first years, the expensive, dashing, automobile was a plaything of the social elite and was surrounded with mystery. The driver and his passenger were bold explorers of the New World. Brand names were substituted for the word "automobile' and an owner began to refer to his automobile as "Mercedes" and the names, because of their use in posters, became symbols of power or wealth or speed.
The vintage poster was produced at a Stuttgart studio, which did not credit the artist. The background is the Stuttgart Palace Garden, which became the Stuttgart State Opera, which still exists today. The famous Mercedes star logo is still uncircled in. this poster, as the company did not register the trademark in its present form until 1919. Copies of the vintage poster are in museums in Berlin and Munich.
Date: 1912
Price:
$375.00
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Metropolis
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Considered the "high point of German Expressionist cinema," "Metropolis' was inspired by a visit to New York City in 1924 by Director Fritz Lang.
Written by Lang and his wife, Thea von Harbou, It is a vision of technology as master. Lang framed his story of the fight for individual freedom against an overpowering and amoral cityscape of subterranean factories, skyscrapers, and ever-present hordes of blank-faced workers.
The film's most memorable scenes involve Rudolf Klein-Rogge's mad scientist, Rotwang, and his robotic creation, "the false Maria."
The movie was described as "a mighty, surging love-drama of the two worlds that work out their turbulent destinies within the confines of a great, imaginative city. The rich live in towering skyscrapers hundreds of stories high. The poor live In squalid caves underground. When a millionaire's son falls in love with a beautiful cave girl, a typhoon of riotous emotions is set loose which climaxes with a devastating flood that destroys the metropolis."
"The year 1927 belonged to the sci-fi masterpiece "Metropolis," the Fritz Lang/Thea von Harbou vision of the world one hundred years in the future, with its magnificent architecture, monumental machinery, ravishing robotrix, fabulous special effects, and brilliant mad scientist, Rotwang. 0 From "Graven Images," Grove Press, 1992.
Date: 1926
Price:
$1,100.00
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Mode Ball - 1928
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Born on Sumatra, Julius Ussy Engelhard returned to his parent's native Germany to study. He became a noted illustrator and poster designer and contributed to SIMPLICISSIMUS and all the leading fashion magazines of the period.
This typical Englehard Art Deco image is an incredibly forceful and elegant poster for a 1928 fashion ball.
Date: 1928
Price:
$350.00
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Monaco Gran Prix, 1930
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Robert Falcucci was a painter and illustrator, as well as a poster designer. Although he was known for his depiction of automobiles, he became famous for his Monaco poster designs of the 1930s.
The "Monaco Grand Prix" came about because of the ambition of the founder of the Automobile Club of Monaco. The Club had originally organized traditional road races, up and down the Riviera, called Monte Carlo Rallies, but since they overlapped into neighboring France or even Italy, they didn't qualify as "national" races. To gain acceptance as a national Club, the Automobile Club of Monaco therefore organized a race entirely within the principality of Monaco. The novelty scored big with the international set at its introduction in 1929; this is a poster for the second running the subsequent year. "Monaco Grand Prix" is the first real poster for this race; the first poster, for 1929, contained no image. This design, with a twilight view of Monte Carlo behind the zooming racer, is perhaps the rarest and most valued of them.
Date: 1930
Price:
$400.00
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Moulin Rouge
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*Image is in 3 sheets.
This is the complete three-sheet version of "Moulin Rouge". It is very possibly Lautrec's finest poster and in almost every way his most spectacular one. Perhaps more incredibly, it is his first poster and his first lithograph. In color and design, it marked an entirely new direction for the artist.
Although Lautrec produced only 30 posters in his lifetime, he is considered 'the master of the poster,' For sheer mastery of the color lithographic process; for his clear understanding of the different needs of poster from painting; for the brilliance of his colors, the uses of contrasts, the fine sense of composition; for the strong, sometimes compassionate, and always compelling rendering of his subjects - for all these and more, we owe him the title of master of this medium. There is a clarity of composition, which can only derive from a clarity of concept. His reputation was that he would stride into the printer's workshop, knowing exactly the outcome he sought, and determined to impose that fully on the artisans until he got it.
The focus of attention is Louise Weber, "La Goulue" ("The Glutton") and although she is not stage front, the paper-white swirling petticoat contrasted with the black silhouettes of the onlookers focuses our attention to her. Framing the entire composition is the elegant lettering, the row of gas lamps, the perspective of the floor boards, and the imposing figure of her partner in the quadrille, Valentin, "le Desosse ("The Boneless") in the forefront.
Date: 1891
Price:
$1,100.00
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North Berwick
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Simplified design and bold colors make this 1930 golfing scene by Andrew Johnson very compelling.
An art critic reviewing Johnson's work stated that he "was an agreeable landscape painter, expertly rendering the scenic views he was entrusted with. When he focused on individuals - as in this image for the LNER's service to North Berwick - he was an exceedingly effective posterist."
It was said of his travel posters, for which he was also well known, that "he has a virile touch in figure subjects as well as in landscapes."
Andrew Johnson himself laid out his concept of poster-making. "If the poster forces attention by its dramatic presentation or its "newness," its First objective has been achieved - it has been seen! "
Date: 1930
Price:
$400.00
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Opal (Cigar)
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One seldom sees a poster subject lit solely by flame. In this Swiss poster, the face it illuminates suggests that if this man were ever sold a cigar that proved less than the best, there'd be hell to pay.
Date: 1936
Price:
$300.00
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