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Donald Brun (1909-1999)
Davos (1970s)
Original vintage poster 102 x 64 cm Donald Brun produced his famous series of posters for Switzerland as global travel became more popular. Davos is depicted as a marvellous and brightly-coloured resort full of beauteous skiers, pony sleds, and ice skaters. Cable cars travel up to the tip of a bright red ski, and a bold skier launches himself into the wide blue yonder. Condition: very good. Backed to linen. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage skiing posters. -
R C Meaux
Tignes - Ski Artistique (1990)
Original vintage poster 80 x 53 cm An original vintage poster printed in colour in 1990 by L’Avenir Graphic. The poster was designed to promote the 1992 Olympic Winter Games in Albertville. A similar design was also used for a limited edition French postage stamp in 1992. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage ski posters. -
Mario Puppo (1905 - 1977)
Santo Stefano d'Aveto
Original vintage poster 97 x 68 cm Produced circa 1955 for Italian Railways. Mario Puppo's poster advertising the Italian ski resort of Santo Stefano d'Aveto. The figure of a skier reaches upward in triumph; behind her, a vintage ski lift makes its way up the mountain and a blue-clad skier tackles the piste. Mario Puppo was born in Levanto, Italy, and worked in a studio in Chiavari. He designed leaflets advertising skiing and beach resorts, which gained popularity in the 1930s. By the 1940s his poster designs were being featured in the Milan Advertising Graphics show. Throughout the 1940s he designed covers for catalogues, leaflets, playbills, music scores and records, as well as producing more travel posters for public and private Italian companies. Condition: backed to linen; frame included for UK mainland only (excluding Cornwall, Highlands and Islands - where further shipping charges may apply). If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters. -
Adelboden
Original vintage poster 104 x 63 cm A fantastic original vintage poster advertising the Swiss ski resort of Adelboden, tucked away in the Bernese Oberland. Printed in Switzerland by Brügger AG. The photograph was taken by the Swiss photographers Emanuel Gyger and Arnold Klopfenstein. The pair were renowned for their captivating skiing images. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage skiing posters. -
Mammoth Mountain California Vintage Ski Poster (1967)
67 x 53 cm Printed by LooArt Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Vintage travel poster for Mammoth, California ski resort. Includes an illustration of a skiier gliding through the air. Direct from the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. Condition: Excellent -
Davos, Parsenn Region, Switzerland Vintage Ski Poster (1968)
67 x 53 cm Printed by LooArt Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1968 1960s poster for Davos ski resort in Parsenn, Switzerland, featuring a photograph of a skiier jumping off the slope into powder snow. Direct from the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. Condition: Excellent -
Breckenridge, Colorado Vintage Ski Poster USA (1967)
67 x 53 cm Printed by LooArt Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1967 Travel poster for skiing in Breckenridge, Colorado, featuring a photograph of a smiling skier - Trygve Berge sporting Kneissl skis - and a rather cool pair of shades and jumper. Direct from the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. Condition: Excellent. -
Lionshead, Vail, Colorado Vintage Ski Poster USA (c.1970) Powder Day
67 x 53 cm Poster Printed by LooArt Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1970 Direct from the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. Condition: Excellent -
Aspen Highlands Vintage Ski Poster (c.1970) Maroon Bells Mountains
67 x 53 cm Poster Printed by LooArt Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado Direct from the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. Condition: Generally excellent, new-old stock from the 1970s printers. -
Alta, Utah Vintage Ski Poster USA (c.1970)
67 x 53 cm Poster Printed by LooArt Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado, c. 1970 From the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. Condition: Excellent -
Taos New Mexico USA Vintage Ski Poster 1974 Victor Frohlich and Tom Carrera
67 x 53 cm Poster Printed by LooArt Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado Direct from the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. This features Victor Frohlich in the foreground, who had been at Taos Ski Valley since the start, with Tom Carrera in behind him. This is on the Snakedance fun in 1974. Taos Ski Valley was founded in 1955 by Ernie and Rhonda Blake who lived in an eleven foot camper van prior to the construction of the Hondo Lodge - now the Inn at Snakedance (where they lived without power until 1963!) In 1956 Ernie - together with sixteen men from Taos Puelbo and a mule named Lightning - installed the first lift, the Bridger-Boseman J-Bar, serving the current Snakedance run which at the time was the mountain's only run. Condition: From the printer's surplus stock, in generally excellent condition. -
Hart Ski Colorado Original Vintage Poster (c.1970), Roger Staub USA
67 x 53 cm Made in U.S.A Photograph of Olympic Medalist, Roger Staub, photographed by Marvin Newman. Born in 1936, Staub won the gold medal in the Giant Slalom in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley; his first Olympics having been in 1956 where he finished fourth. Following a brief career as a professional racer he commenced a life as ski school director at Vail, Colorado, just after its opening. He died in 1974 in a ski gliding accident. Condition: Generally excellent, direct from the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. -
'BOOM' skibatics in Colorado Poster (c.1970)
67 x 53 cm Original Vintage Poster Printed by LooArt Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Features a photograph of acrobatic skier by Steve Knowlton. Direct from the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. In generally excellent condition. -
'Samivel' Paul Gayet-Tancrède (1907-1992) Les Pyrénées, France
Editions Mythra SA Chamonix Original Vintage Ski Poster 91x62cm With the ever-popular topic of skiing, Samivel here catches a chamois atop a Pyrenean hill, a mountain peak in the background. The chamois, a mountain goat-antelope, has hooked horns when fully grown, this one is likely a kid. Samivel was a writer, an artist, a photographer, an explorer and more. In 1948 he accompanied Paul Émile Victor on the first French Greenland expedition, making three documentary films in the process. His friends included Théodore Monod and Gilbert André - the latter the mayor of Bonneval-sur-Arc and one of the founders of the Vanoise National Park - and with them and others he spent his whole life aiming for the protection of the imperilled countryside. The graphic artist side of him had a life-long fascination with high mountains, and his illustrated books and series of posters of the French Alps have long been popular. Click here to see other posters by Samivel. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good, faint spotting towards bottom. -
Télépheriques de l'Aiguille du Midi et de la Vallée Blanche Chamonix Mont Blanc
Original vintage poster 98x63cm Condition: Good, small loss to top-right corner approx 1cm x 1cm; some creases/very short tears to edges, and a few light creases to poster. Will look great once framed with a mount to hide the edge deficiencies.
