Our October 27 sale of Rare & Important Travel Posters set at least ten auction records. The selection reflected the rapidly changing technology and styles that epitomized the beginning of the…
Among the broad selection of Vintage Posters coming to auction on February 12 are a run of New York World’s Fair advertisements that were designed to promote the 1939-40 exhibition.…
Swann President and Posters specialist Nicholas D. Lowry writes beautifully about the December 17 auction of Travel Posters from the Julius Paul Collection. Read on for his notes on the sale.…
Alphonse Mucha’s Art Nouveau advertisement for JOB rolling papers was the top lot in our August 6 auction Coming on the heels of tremendous media coverage (see: The Telegraph,…
Swann Galleries’ August 6 auction of Vintage Posters features a trio of posters promoting Buffalo Bill, which date from 1888 to 1908. Lot 267: P. Frenzeny’s portrait of the Wild…
Summer 2014 marks 100 years since the start of World War I, also known as The Great War. Sparked by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria on June 28,…
The image is so iconic, it’s been co-opted countless times, but in Swann Galleries’ upcoming Vintage Posters auction we have the original: a 1939 Keep Calm and Carry On poster. When…
Lot 268: Edward Gorey’s poster for New York City Ballet is a classic image– and not necessarily one that brings to mind Gorey. “I didn’t know GOREY did that…
The three top lots in Swann Galleries’ April 24 auction each set new auction records in a sale marked by incredible results for esoteric images. Lot 1 was Bertold Löffler’s Kunstschau…
The name Alphonse Mucha is synonymous with extravagant Art Nouveau depictions of beautiful women. And, while he is known for his posters advertising the talents of actresses such as Sarah…
Regardless of how we feel about the dangers of tobacco today, cigarette advertisements from the last two centuries are some of the most beautiful and captivating images on the poster…
Poster enthusiast and collector Julius Paul was Hungarian, and the posters from his native country are among the most exciting examples in Swann’s December 18 auction. The most well represented…
A unique item among the scarce posters in the recently restituted Julius Paul Collection that Swann is auctioning on December 18 is Josef Hoffmann’s hand-stenciled poster announcing the opening of the first…
Eve Kahn’s recent New York Times piece: “Posters Lost to Nazis are Recovered, and Up for Sale” explored the similarities and differences between two recently restituted major poster collections, the Hans Sachs…
Our August 7 auction of Vintage Posters features an array of wartime propaganda from both the American home front and abroad. The selection of American posters from the Second World War showcases…
On Sunday, March 24, the Affichemuseum, or Poster museum, in Hoorn will open its doors for a special exhibition of Czech Posters From the Collection of the Lowry Family of…
Wednesday’s Vintage Posters sale brought nearly half a million dollars, and was our highest grossing August poster auction ever. The sale set numerous auction records, including Fred Spear’s Enlist, 1915. Spear’s poignant and…
The selection of Vintage Posters in Swann’s upcoming August 1st sale represents a wide range of images from the late 19th-century through the 1980’s. Perhaps most notable is the huge…
Last Thursday’s sale of Modernist Posters achieved several auction records, both for individual posters and for designers, and saw strong results across the board. The day’s top lot, a poster…
With The Avengers earning over $200 million in its first three days, it’s hard to imagine that there is anyone who hasn’t fallen in love with those classic heroes. In…
Thursday’s sale of Modernist Posters features several examples of modernist typography from major innovators of the form, including Max Bill, Walter Dexel and Jan Tschichold, all associates of the Bauhaus. Versions…
Last week, we kicked off the auction season with a sale of Vintage Posters, with very strong results – in fact, it was our highest-grossing February poster sale to date.…
Ernest Haskell’s Truth / Xmas, New York, 1896. Skiing for sport began in the mid-nineteenth century in Northern Europe, although the activity as a means of transport and hunting dates…
The December 15th sale was the first time the complete work of a single poster artist has come to auction. The Complete Poster Works of Roger Broders offered 100 lots…
Friday’s Rare & Important Travel Posters sale was a tremendous success, and a host of new and returning collectors came out in unexpected force to bid on the scarce…
Among the many advertisements for tempting domestic and exotic locations in Friday’s Rare & Important Travel Posters auction, is a particularly fine selection of images promoting Chicago. Ervine Metzl, Chicago,…
The top lot in yesterday’s Vintage Posters auction was May Belfort, a depiction of the Irish performer who amused Toulouse-Lautrec with her singing act that went, “I’ve got a little…
Sharp-eyed vintage poster enthusiasts are marveling over the closing title sequence of this summer’s blockbuster movie Captain America, The First Avenger, which hit theaters on July 22nd. The movie’s closing…
When it comes to vintage poster design, one of the first images people conjure is that of Jane Avril, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s famous cancan dancer, her stockinged leg exposed from…
Jean Dupas’s Bal des Étudiants was the highest priced lot in yesterday’s Modernist Posters auction. The work, which sold for $36,000, is the essence of French Art Deco. Dupas is known for his…
In the U.S., we are familiar with Mather Work Incentive posters that used short and witty phrases to motivate workers and increase productivity; and Character-Culture-Citizenship Guides, issued for use in American classrooms to encourage…
A March 2011 CK ad campaign featuring Lara Stone may or may not have used the F-word. Last month, Calvin Klein was in the news (again) thanks to a controversial…
The French Line’s SS Normandie sailed from 1935 to 1942, when it caught on fire during World War II. The lavish Art Deco liner sailed between Le Havre and New…
The Sutro Baths were the brainchild of former San Francisco Mayor and businessman Adolph Sutro. Built near his famous Cliff House, the baths occupied a stunning location overlooking the Pacific…
