Vintage Posters
Sale #2643
The summer poster auction features one of the largest and most impressive collections of Italian Liberty-style posters to come to market in decades. More than fifty posters come from the collection and feature the work of many of Italy’s most renowned graphic designers: Oswaldo Balerio, Luigi Bompard, Mario Borgoni, Marcello Dudovich, Giovanni Mataloni, Aldo Mazza, Leopoldo Metlicovitz, Aleardo Terzi, and many others. Among the highlights are exceptional images that have not appeared on the international auction scene in over two decades, including Società Torinese Automobili Elettrici / Torino, circa 1910, and Alla Spezia, 1907.
French Art Nouveau posters are led by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s magnificent poster of Aristide Bruant, Ambassadeurs, 1892; exquisite, top-end works by Alphonse Mucha such as the complete 1896 series of The Seasons; and the complete 1899 Times of Day, his two posters for Moet & Chandon, all of Mucha’s Maîtres de l’Affiche images, plus many others.
Beach and Summer resort posters will also be well represented, including Sutro Baths, 1896 and Orient Line to Australia, circa 1938. Early American entertainment is solidly represented by three scarce Buffalo Bill show posters — including Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Pioneer Exhibition, 1907 — and one of the great tattoo images, Captain Costentenus.
Additionally, we have an outstanding run of very rare Art Deco Japanese advertising posters.
A featured selection of World War and propaganda posters includes the iconic I Want You, and Keep Calm and Carry On!
EXHIBITIONS
Mon, Jul 31st 12pm- 5pm
Tue, Aug 1st 12pm - 5pm
Wed, Aug 2nd 12pm - 5pm
Swann Auction Galleries
104 E 25th St
New York, NY
40.741229413679, -73.9849605
Swann Auction Galleries
