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Auction 16 - International Posters

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Our 16th bi-annual poster auction will be divided into 4 special themes:

Advertising

Military & Propaganda

Film

Travel.

We offer approximately 100 posters per section.

ADVERTISING: Posters include café and restaurant posters, products, food & drinks and World’s Fair items. Among the highlights are Cappiello’s “Pate Éclair” (lot 22), Mauzan’s work for Bertozzi (lot 25), a beautiful French wine poster by Orazi (lot 33), and a rare American Victor Cycles poster from the 1890s (lot 47). Other well-known artists include Grasset and Hohlwein.

The MAITRES DE L’AFICHE selection includes fine works by Cheret, Grün, Steinlen, and Privat-Livemont, among others.

The PROPAGANDA & MILITARY section includes works from World War I through the Vietnam War, including some Russian photomontage posters, Spanish Civil War ephemera and a group of Mather Work Incentive posters. The famous “I want you” poster by Flagg (lot 117), Rudi Feld’s “Die Gefahr de Bolschewismus” (lot 116), Ludwig Hohlwein’s “Luftschutz” and “Und Du” (lots 142 and 152), Freese’s “Nuremberg – Guilty” lot 185) and Brandt’s “And Babies?” are all part of this diverse selection. Artists include Mihaly Biro, Jean Carlu, Norman Rockwell, John Falter, Joseph Leyendecker, Ben Shahn and many others.

The FILM selection includes posters from the 1940s through the 1960s. Highlights are two very rare posters for the original release of Godzilla (lots 269 and 273), the US one-sheet for “The Maltese Falcon” (lot 212), Leni Riefenstahl’s “Blue Light” (lot 213), “Creature from the Black Lagoon” (lot 271) and Ocean’s 11 (lot 286).

The TRAVEL section starts with a selection of WORLD’S FAIR and TRAIN posters. There are two posters for the 1878 World’s Fair in Paris (lots 312 and 313) as well as a number of pieces for the American Fairs in Chicago, New York and San Francisco (lots 326, 327, 328, 329, 333 and 338). The train poster selection includes two original gouache artworks for Southern Pacific and a wonderful selection of posters by Maurice Logan (336 through 352). Other items include ocean liner memorabilia, several David Klein works (New York, Disneyland) for TWA, Pan Am Clipper posters and a selection of travel posters from Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Switzerland. The sale concludes with 2 classic zeppelin travel posters from the 1930s by artists Ottomar Anton and Jupp Wiertz (lots 427 and 428).

2003 Nov 23
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344 - Beautiful GE Posters by Greene

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344 Greene, Walter L. 1870 - 1956 General Electric (2 posters) Letterprint ca. 1940 20.4 x 16.1 in. (52 x 41 cm) (A-) incl. -The D

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