At Auction May 3 Graphic Design This auction celebrates innovation in the field of graphic design, with a colorful offering of vintage posters, along with a coterie of fine…
Ladislav Sutnar, III Delnicka Olympiada [Third Workers Olympiad], poster, 1934. Inspiration-driven publisher Designers & Books is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund a facsimile edition of Visual Design in Action, the iconic…
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…
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…
In Belle Epoch France, posters were used to advertise everything from goods and services to exhibitions and magazines. The result was an all-out poster craze, with collectors putting aside images…
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…
