Artist: Cheret Printer: Chaix Imprimerie, Paris Size: 8.5 x 11.8 in / 21.5 x 30 cm On/Off Linen: Unlined Year: 1896 Condition & Comments: Excellent A condition
Les Affiches Illustrees was created by Jules Cheret at the Chaix imprimerie to celebrate the famous poster artists and their works of the time. Poster collecting was the rage between 1895 and 1900 and Cheret made sure to supply the public with all the images of a selection of the best posters of the time. The printing was by way of Stone lithgoraphy and great attention was paid to quality. In Excellent condition
Original vintage travel poster promoting Basel, designed by Swiss artist and graphic designer Markus Schneider. This lively bird’s-eye view of the city presents Basel along the Rhine in a map-like panorama, with the river, bridges, old town, and key monuments rendered in bright, mid-century color blocks. The style is typical of Schneider’s 1960s work—clear, graphic, and highly legible from a distance—made to advertise Basel as a cultural and architectural destination. Printed in Basel by Frobenius AG. The poster is in excellent original condition, not linen-backed, with strong, fresh colors and a very clean overall appearance.
Title: Basel Switzerland (Birds-Eye View)
Artist: Markus Schneider (1938–2021)
Date: circa 1960
Printer: Frobenius AG, Basel
Size: approx. 102 x 64 cm (about 40.2 x 25.2 in)
Print Type: Original vintage lithograph
Condition: A / near mint. No linen backing. Colors strong, paper clean, no notable defects.
Comments: A scarce Basel tourist poster from Schneider’s early travel-poster period
Original vintage travel poster promoting Basel and its cultural life along the Rhine. Designed by Conzelmann Schaffner, the composition combines multiple images representing Basel’s well-known attractions, including the Carnival and Guggenmusik tradition, the city’s art heritage, the zoo, and scenes along the Rhine River. Printed in offset lithography by Gustav Gissler, Basel. This example is in excellent condition with strong color and full margins.
Details
Title: Basel – Die Stadt am Rhein und vieles mehr…
Artist: Conzelmann Schaffner
Date: c. 1970s–1980s
Printer: Gustav Gissler, Basel
Print Type: Offset lithography
Size: 70 x 100 cm (approx. 27.5 x 39 inches)
Condition: Excellent
Comments: Original Swiss travel poster highlighting Basel’s cultural and leisure attractions, including Carnival, Guggenmusik, art, the zoo, and the Rhine River.
Original c.1900 French railway poster for Beausoleil, a resort on the Côte d’Azur, issued by the Paris–Lyon–Méditerranée (PLM) railway company while it was still formally known as the Chemins de Fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée. The design, by an anonymous artist, promotes Beausoleil as a premier Mediterranean destination at the turn of the century.
The poster was produced using chromolithography, a demanding color printing process employed by only a handful of French ateliers around 1900. This technique allowed for richly layered tones and subtle gradients, giving the image a depth not achievable through simpler lithographic methods of the period.
Highly sought after as both a travel and railway collectible, this example is professionally backed on linen and survives in excellent “A” condition, retaining strong color and sharp detail.
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Details
Title: Beausoleil
Artist: Anonymous
Date: c.1900
Printer: Robaudy, Cannes, France
Size: 30 x 40 in.
Print Type: Chromolithography
Linen: On linen
Condition: Excellent “A”
This is an original Italian advertising poster designed by René Gruau for Bemberg, promoting the brand’s rayon jacket linings. The slogan translates roughly as “Bemberg – the lining that goes fast.”
Gruau depicts motorcyclists wearing jackets opened in motion to reveal vividly colored linings, making the interior fabric the central visual element. Rather than focusing on the motorcycle itself, the image emphasizes movement, style, and the contrast between the outer garment and its lining.
The poster was part of a campaign that repositioned Bemberg linings from a hidden functional detail to a visible design feature. Gruau’s graphic style—bold shapes, limited palette, and strong sense of motion—fits naturally with the motorcycle theme while remaining rooted in fashion illustration. This work reflects his long involvement with luxury and apparel advertising and is a good example of his later commercial posters.
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Details
Title: Bemberg – La fodera che va forte
Artist: René Gruau
Date: 1973
Size: 39 × 55 inches (99 × 140 cm)
Linen backed: Yes
Comments: Original Italian poster. Archival linen backing. Excellent condition
Original vintage French advertising poster for Bière Phénix, created in 1930 by Léon Dupin (1898–1971). Printed in Paris by Joseph Charles. Large format example from the early 20th-century French brewing industry.
This is an original 1930 lithographic printing.
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Artist: Léon Dupin (1898–1971)
Printer: Joseph Charles, Paris
Country: France
Year: 1930
Size: 39 x 55 inches (100 x 140 cm)
On/Off Linen: Backed on linen
Print Technique: Lithograph
Condition & Comments: Excellent condition on linen.
Artist: Antonioni Printer: Rotolitografica Size: 39 x 55 in / 100 x 140 cm On/Off Linen: On Linen Print Technique: Offset lithograph Year: 1970 Condition & Comments: Excellent A Blowup by Antonioni original 1970 Poster on linen
Cinema Poster printed for the Film Blowup, staring David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave. Poster is on linen and in excellent condition. There were 2 printings by the same company rotolito and rotolitografica as the company changed names during those years. The first was in 1967 and then this one a second printing done by rotolitografica circa 1970. Poster has been linenbacked by museum quality professional.
Original French advertising poster for Bonal Gentiane Quina designed by A.M. Cassandre. This example is the rarer pink background version of the design. The composition features a stylized figure drinking Bonal, with the liquid transforming into pink stars within the body. A key appears over the stomach, visually suggesting the idea promoted by the product: Bonal “opens the appetite.” The bold geometry and simplified forms are characteristic of Cassandre’s modernist approach to poster design.
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (1901–1968) was one of the most important commercial artists of the twentieth century. A poster designer, painter, lithographer, and creator of typefaces, he combined influences from avant-garde movements such as Cubism, Surrealism, and Neue Sachlichkeit with the demands of commercial advertising. His work helped define the modern graphic language of the interwar period.
Artist: Cassandre, A.M.
Title: Bonal Gentiane Quina
Origin: France
Size: 46 1/4 x 62 inches
On / Off Linen: On linen
Print Technique: Lithograph
Year: c.1933
Condition & Comments: Nice condition on linen with minor restorations.
Lithographic plate reproducing the poster design Buffoni by Leopoldo Metlicovitz, issued as part of the well-known Ricordi Portfolio. This series presented a selection of important poster designs printed by the Ricordi publishing house during the height of the Italian poster movement between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The portfolio gathered together small-format reproductions of these works and was distributed internationally in the early twentieth century.
Casa Ricordi of Milan, originally a music publisher closely associated with the Italian opera world, developed a major lithographic printing workshop in the late nineteenth century. Through its printing department the firm produced posters for music, theatre, and commercial clients and became a central force in the development of the Italian poster. The artists working with Ricordi helped define the Italian version of Art Nouveau, often referred to as Stile Liberty.
Leopoldo Metlicovitz (1868–1944) was one of the principal designers associated with Ricordi. His posters and illustrations are recognized for their elegant compositions and refined color work, and he contributed numerous designs for theatre, publishing, and advertising.
Artist: Metlicovitz, Leopoldo
Title: Buffoni (Ricordi Portfolio plate)
Printer / Publisher: Ricordi, Milan
Size: 10 x 14 inches / 25 x 36 cm
On / Off Linen: Unlined
Print Technique: Lithograph
Year: c.1910
Condition & Comments: Excellent condition. Plate from the Ricordi portfolio series presenting reduced lithographic versions of notable Italian posters from the Ricordi workshop.
Artist: Razzia Printer: Caza Imprimerie, Paris Size: 27 x 37 in / 68.6 x 100 cm On/Off Linen: Unlined Print Technique: Serigraph Year: 1990’s
Cafe de Flore original (Gerard Courbouleix)
Famous Restaurant in Saint Germain on the left bank of Paris, poster is in excellent condition. For Dinner, drinks, wine or coffee and desserts, its a must stop in Paris.
The poster is hand-signed by the artist and comes directly from him. Unlike some sellers who only claim to offer original hand-signed Razzia posters, ours are guaranteed to be authentic. We can provide a Certificate of Authenticity if you ask for one.
