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Posters For Sale
Cyrk Large Stripy Cat Tiger 1971 Polish Circus Poster, Hubert Hilscher
Located in Bath, Somerset
Original Polish cyrk (circus) poster featuring a wonderfully psychedelic large stripy cat design by Hubert Hilscher. Super rare first print run.
The ‘Cyrk” circus poster in Poland a...
Category
20th Century Polish Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Niki de Saint Phalle “Space Niki” Ueno Exhibition Poster, Japan, 1980
Located in Copenhagen K, DK
Niki de Saint Phalle
Japan, 1980
“Space Niki” Ueno. Vintage exhibition poster.
H 75 x W 55 x D 3 cm
Category
1980s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Other
Cachou Lajaunie 1922 Vintage French Advertising Poster, Leonetto Cappiello
Located in Bath, Somerset
Original 1920s French vintage Cachou Lajaunie advertising poster featuring a beautiful design by poster artist Leonetto Cappiello. We love Cappiello's design of a fabulously dressed ...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Devon GWR Frank Sherwin Great Western Railway UK
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway travel poster for Devon issued by Great Western Railway GWR featuring a great illustration by the notable British poster artist Frank Sherwin (1896-1996) of ...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Advertising Poster Niigata Industry Expo Japan
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for the 新潟 Niigata Prefecture Industry Expo held from 20 July to 31 August 1950 featuring a colourful design depicting smoke rising from in...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Ishikawa Nagoya Railway Japan Kanazawa Castle
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster for 石川 Ishikawa on the Japanese island of Honshu issued by the Ishikawa Prefecture Tourism Federation and the Nagoya Railway Bureau featuring sce...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Drink Advertising Poster Guinness Animals At Edinburgh Zoo Beer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster for Guinness - See the Guinness Animals at Edinburgh Zoo - featuring a fun and colourful image of all the iconic Guinness animals gathered a...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Alfie 1966 Italian 2 Foglio Film Poster, Sandro Symeoni
Located in Bath, Somerset
Alfie, many people's favourite cinematic rogue and arguably Caine's best role. An iconic 60s film and this poster's glamorous Italian stylings and size make it our favourite for the ...
Category
20th Century Italian Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
Goldfinger
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster.
This poster would have been used outside the cinema at the films original release in Japan, the artwork is unique to the films Japanese release.
Goldfi...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Imperial Airways British Airline Heracles Plane
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Imperial Airways The British Air Line Travel in perfect comfort by the largest air liners in the World to Europe Africa India and the Eas...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Horror of Dracula 1959 French Moyenne Film Poster, Guy Gerard Noel
Located in Bath, Somerset
Fantastic first-year-of-release French Moyenne film poster for Hammer's very first Dracula (1958) film featuring a wonderful design by Guy Gerard Noel.
The first in the series of Ha...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Superman Door Panel - DC Prints Poster US Special 1971
Located in Bath, Somerset
A super cool, super huge, super rare vintage 1971 Superman poster!
Fantastic original authorised commercial Superman Peace poster designed by Swan and Anderson and printed by Poster...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Paper
La Strada 1955 Belgian Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Original first-year-of-release Belgian film poster for Fellini's La Strada.
When Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), a naive young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brut...
Category
20th Century Belgian Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Poster Herring Drifters North Sea Empire Marketing Board EMB
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board (EMB 1926-1933): Herring Drifters In The North Sea featuring stunning artwork by the British painter, illustrator and pos...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Health And Safety Propaganda Poster National Safety Week Japan
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Japanese health and safety propaganda poster for the Japan National Safety Week held from 1 to 7 July 1955 issued by the Ministry of Labour featuring a modernist des...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Harry and the Hendersons 1988 Polish B1 Film Poster, Jakub Erol
By Jakub Erol
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderful Bigfoot (or should it be Big-hand!) artwork by Erol for 80s comedy caper Harry and the Hendersons.
The end of the Second World War marked the dawn of a new period in the d...
Category
20th Century Polish Posters
Materials
Paper
West Side Story R1969 Japanese 2 Sheet Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderful original Japanese film poster for the 1969 re-release of West Side Story in Japan. This Japanese Tatekan poster is very rare. A stunning poster.
The Japanese Tatekan (also...
Category
20th Century Japanese Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
1990 World Cup Italia '90 Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It was held in Italy from 8th June to 8th July 1990.
The t...
Category
1990s Italian Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Sport Poster Winter Sports Games Latvia USSR Ice Skating
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport poster for the Winter Sports Games in Latvia / LSPR Ziemas Sporta Speles issued by The Union of Sports Associations and Organisations of the Latvian SSR featur...
Category
1960s Latvian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Living Daylights 1987 Japanese B2 Advance Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Original Japanese B2 Advance film poster for James Bond's The Living Daylights starring Timothy Dalton.
This vintage movie poster is sized 20 1/4 x 28 1/28 inches, it will be sent r...
Category
20th Century Japanese Posters
Materials
Paper
The Seven Year Itch R1966 German A1 Film Poster, Fischer-Nosbisch
Located in Bath, Somerset
Fabulous pop-art design by Dorothea Fischer-Nosbisch features on the 1966 re-release German film poster for Marilyn Monroe classic The Seven Year Itch. Love it!
This vintage movie p...
Category
20th Century German Posters
Materials
Paper
The Seven Year Itch R1966 German A0 Film poster, Fischer-Nosbisch
Located in Bath, Somerset
One word simply sums up the German 1966 re-release poster for The Seven Year Itch featuring Fischer-Nosbisch artwork... Stunning! Its size makes for a great impact in any room.
This...
Category
20th Century German Posters
Materials
Paper
Cyrk Chimps in Hats 1971 Polish Circus Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Fantastic Polish cyrk (circus) poster featuring a fabulous design of Chimps in Hats form 1971. A super rare early Polish cyrk poster in fab condition.
The ‘Cyrk” circus poster in Po...
Category
20th Century Polish Posters
Materials
Paper
The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Japanese 2 Sheet Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Super rare and beautiful first-year-of-release Japanese 2 Sheet film poster for Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway classic The Thomas Crown Affair. Wonderful montage imagery and fantasti...
Category
20th Century Japanese Posters
Materials
Paper
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 East German Film Poster, Thomas Schleusing
Located in Bath, Somerset
Fabulous first-year-of-release East German film poster for classic spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West with art by Thomas Schleusing. Wonderfully original, contemporary an...
Category
20th Century German Posters
Materials
Paper
Cyrk Nine Lions 1976 Polish B1 Circus Poster, Tadeusz Jodlowski
Located in Bath, Somerset
The beautiful original Polish cyrk (circus) poster featuring 9 lion faces (well actually 8 lions and one lady!). Wonderfully edgy, pop design.
The ‘Cyrk” circus poster in Poland app...
Category
20th Century Polish Posters
Materials
Paper
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1968 French Moyenne Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Le Bon, La Brute, Le Truand, the 1966 Italian epic spaghetti Western movie directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Va...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Star Wars R1982 Japanese B2 Film Poster, Noriyoshi Ohrai
Located in Bath, Somerset
Star Wars the American epic space Sci-Fi created by George Lucas, advertised epically on this Japanese film poster by artist Noriyoshi Ohrai. This poster was created in commemoration...
Category
20th Century Japanese Posters
Materials
Paper
Masculin Feminin 1966 German A1 Film Poster, Hans Hillmann
Located in Bath, Somerset
The first-year-of-release German film poster for Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Feminin featuring fantastic art by Hans Hillmann. A rare and very beautiful poster.
Considered the foundi...
Category
20th Century German Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Jura Pontarlier Roger Broders PLM Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Jura Environs De Pontarlier / Surroundings of Pontarlier - issued by the PLM Paris Lyon Mediterranee railway featuring a stunning design by the notab...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Withnail and I 1987 US 1 Sheet Film Poster, Ralph Steadman
Located in Bath, Somerset
Original first-year-of-release US1 Sheet film poster for Brit cult classic Withnail and I starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McCann. This rare poster features a great design by Ralph...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Paper
The Goonies 1985 Japanese B2 Film Poster, Drew Struzan
By Drew Struzan
Located in Bath, Somerset
Hey you guys!
We've got the fab original first-year-of-release Japanese film poster for 80s firm favourite The Goonies. Drew Struzan's iconic design looks even cooler with the Japan...
Category
20th Century Japanese Posters
Materials
Paper
Batman R1970s Belgian Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Striking early 1970s re-release Belgian film poster for Batman. Superb artwork.
This original vintage movie poster has been professionally linen-backed is sized 14 3/8 x 21 1/8 inch...
Category
20th Century Belgian Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Innerspace 1989 Polish B1 Film Poster, Andrzej Pagowski
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderfully inventive design by Pagowski features on the Polish film poster for Joe Dante'a 80s caper Innerspace in which a test pilot (Dennis Quaid) is miniaturised in a secret expe...
Category
20th Century Polish Posters
Materials
Paper
Funny Girl 1970 East German A1 Film Movie Poster, Roeder
Located in Bath, Somerset
Charming design by Roeder features on this original East German film poster for Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif.
This original vintage movie poster is professio...
Category
20th Century German Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
Blow-up 1967 Italian Locandina Yellow Style Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
We love this striking original country-of-origin Italian Locandina film poster for Antonioni's 1966's classic Blow-up. Produced in 3 different colours with yellow being the rarest.
...
Category
20th Century Italian Posters
Materials
Paper
On the Waterfront
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster from (1954)
This is a classic American crime drama it received 12 Academy Award nominations, winning eight, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Marlon...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
“Grand Hotel” Javier Mariscal 1977 first solo exhibition poster, 1980s re-print
Located in Chicago, IL
1980s re-print of Javier Mariscal’s 1977 first solo exhibition's poster at Mec Mec gallery in Barcelona, Spain. Featuring the Garriris character, Mariscal’s 1980’s emblematic figure....
Category
1980s Spanish Post-Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
L'Avventura 1960 French Moyenne Film Poster, Carlantonio Longi
By Carlantonio Longi 1
Located in Bath, Somerset
Incredibly rare and beautiful first-year-of-release French Moyenne film poster for Michelangelo Antonioni's breakthrough classic L'Avventura. Featuring a stunning design by Carlanton...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest R1970s Italian 2 Foglio Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Jack Nicholson's character rightfully takes centre stage in the visually impressive Italian 70s re-release 2 sheet. The simple but effective artwork and size of the poster combine to...
Category
20th Century Italian Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
A Hard Day's Night 1964 Belgian Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Original first-year-of-release Belgian film poster for the Beatles rock & roll classic A Hard Day’s Night. Quite typical of Belgian posters, it features a unique design than other po...
Category
20th Century Belgian Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Favor c1950s Motorcycle Advertising Poster Bellenger
Located in Bath, Somerset
"Simple, practical, elegant"
We love this 1950s French motorcycling advertisment poster for French company Favor. Favor, manufacturer of bicycles and motorcycles, was founded in 189...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Creature From the Black Lagoon R1962 French Moyenne Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
An early 60s re-release French film poster for the 1954 American classic monster movie Creature from the Black Lagoon. The film's plot follows a group of scientists who encounter a p...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Big 1988 Czech A1 Film Poster, Bartosova
Located in Bath, Somerset
Big the 1988 American fantasy comedy movie directed by Penny Marshall, staring Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, a pre-adolescent boy whose wishes to be "big"! Fantastic innovative artwork f...
Category
20th Century Czech Posters
Materials
Paper
Cyrk Trapeze Woman 1965 Polish B1 Circus Poster, Jan Mlodozeniec
Located in Bath, Somerset
Fantastic first edition Polish cyrk (circus) poster featuring a fabulous design by one of the Polish School of Posters finest, Jan Mlodozeniecr. A super rare early Polish cyrk poster...
Category
20th Century Polish Posters
Materials
Paper
South Pacific R1960s UK Quad Film Poster, Tom Chantrell
Located in Bath, Somerset
We adore the 60s re-release for classic musical South Pacific. Tom Chantrell's design is more akin to a travel poster than a film poster, and it certainly makes us want to visit! Sum...
Category
20th Century British Posters
Materials
Paper
Mary Poppins 1969 Czech A1 Film Poster, Eva Galova
By Eva Galova
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderfully inventive and contemporary design by Galova for the Czech poster for Disney's Mary Poppins, which some may even describe as supercalifragilisticexpialidociouse!
Like the...
Category
20th Century Czech Posters
Materials
Paper
Love in the Afternoon 1957 US 1/2 Sheet Film Poster, Saul Bass
By Saul Bass
Located in Bath, Somerset
We love the Saul Bass artwork that features on the US 1/2 Sheet for Audrey Hepburn classic Love in the Afternoon.
Saul Bass (1920-1996), the undisputed maestro of film title and pos...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Paper
Ocean's Eleven 1960 French Moyenne Film Poster, Jean Mascii
By Jean Mascii
Located in Bath, Somerset
Great first-year-of-release French Moyenne film poster for Rat Pack classic Ocean's 11 (L'inconnu de las Vegas). A very rare poster in fantastic condition featuring a great design by...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Lola 1967 Polish A1 Film Poster, Maciej Hibner
Located in Bath, Somerset
The Polish poster for Jacques Demy’s 1961 classic romcom Lola. Another exceptionally cool Polish film poster which we think trumps all other versions.
The end of the Second World Wa...
Category
20th Century Polish Posters
Materials
Paper
Lawrence of Arabia 1963 French Moyenne Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderful first-year-of-release French Moyenne film poster for bonafide classic Lawrence of Arabia.
Lawrence of Arabia, undoubtedly one of the most celebrated epics in the history o...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Le Mepris 1963 French Moyenne Film Poster, Georges Allard
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderful first-year-of-release country-0f-origin French film poster for Jean-Luc Godard New Wave classic Le Mepris (aka Contempt) starring Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance and Michel P...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Black Sunday 1961 French Moyenne Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderfully dramatic art features on this first-year-of-release French Moyenne film poster for Mario Bava horror Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio/Le Masque du Demon).
A very ra...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Lawrence of Arabia 1963 French Petite Film Poster, Georges Kerfyser
Located in Bath, Somerset
We love the simple elegance of the French Advance Affiche Petite for Lawrence of Arabia. With artwork by Georges Kerfyser, this is an exceedingly rare poster for, arguably, one of th...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Dr Strangelove 1964 French Moyenne Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Fabulous first-year-of-release French Moyenne film poster for Stanley Kubrick's classic Dr. Strangelove (Dr. Folamour) starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden A r...
Category
20th Century French Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Antique World War One War Loan Bond Poster Invest WWI Victory USA
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One war loan poster - Invest! - featuring a great design depicting the title text in bold white lettering on a blue outlined V for Victory against a red ba...
Category
1910s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique North Africa Travel Poster Meknes Morocco Bab Mansour Brondy
Located in London, GB
Original antique North Africa travel poster for Meknes Ancient Residence Of The Sultans Of Morocco / Antique Residence Des Sultans Du Maroc featuring artwork by Matteo Brondy (1866-1...
Category
1920s Algerian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Outlaw R1946 US 1 sheet Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Super rare, super amazing artwork features on this original 1940s film poster for Howard Hughes The Outlaw.
The film was made in 1941, but due to censorship issues with Jane Russell...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Linen, 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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