• XVIes Jeux Olympiques d'Hiver (Albertville 1992)

      Lithograph 80 x 61 cm This poster advertises the 1992 Winter Olympics. It features a snowy-white mountain against a bright blue sky, with a golden sun in the shape of a star above right, and the Olympic rings below. Condition: backed to linen; generally very good; some staining to right hand side that could be covered by a mount. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters.
  • France - les vins de Bourgogne Le Clos de Vougeot Cote d'Or

        Original vintage poster 61 x 40 cm An original poster depicting the Château du Clos de Vougeot vineyard in Burgundy during the grape harvest. Men and women pick the grapes outside the Château. Standing in the very heart of Burgundy's vineyards, Clos de Vougeot was originally a wine farm, built in the 12th century by monks from the nearby Abbey of Cîteaux. In the 16th century, a Renaissance style château was added to the existing buildings. Even though the Chateau du Clos de Vougeot does not produce wine anymore, it stays the symbol of a millenary of Burgundy's History. Condition: generally very good, small crease to top corner. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters.
  • Jeux de la Passion Oberammergau (1960)

        Original vintage poster 100 x 63 cm Printed in Germany. This magnificent poster advertises the Passion Play (an outdoor play telling the Easter story) held every ten years in Oberammergau in the Bavarian Alps. Tradition tells that the town was struck with plague in 1633; the townsfolk vowed that they would perform a Passion Play every ten years as a symbol of thanks to God if the plague would end, which it did. At the turn of the twentieth century, improved railways across Europe meant that people from outside the Alps could travel to see the Passion Play in Oberammergau. This poster was designed for publication in France, to encourage the French to come to see the play. Condition: generally very good; a few tiny repaired edge tears. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters.
  • Foire Internationale de Hanover

      Original vintage poster 84 x 59 cm This poster with its highly modern logo advertises the 1960 Hanover Fair. British military authorities organised the trade fair as a bolster to Germany's post-war economy. Over 1,000 exhibitors showed a selection of items made in Germany for overseas export. This version of the poster was designed for display in France. Condition: generally very good. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters.
  • Grächen, 1617 m (1969)

        Original vintage poster 101 x 64 cm A beaming skier holds a map of Grächen, encouraging us to plan our next skiing trip there. Voluminous hair, a lack of helmet, turtleneck jumper and leather gloves mark the poster out as fabulously 1960s. Condition: generally very good; a few tiny repaired edge tears. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters.
  • José Ortega (1921 - 1990)

    Romanische Kunst Spanien (1960s)

        Original vintage poster 100 x 63 cm Printed in Madrid for the Publications de la Direccion General del Turismo. Ortega's poster for the Spanish tourist board promotes the Romanesque art of Spain. This edition of the poster was produced for circulation in Germany. José García Ortega was born in Arroba de los Montes and was a member of the Communist Party. He worked as a painter and sculptor, studying at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. In 1953 he went to France to study art, funded by a French government scholarship. He returned to Spain throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and became a commercially successful artist. Some of his most famous designs include the posters which the Spanish tourist board commissioned from him circa 1960. Condition: generally very good; a few tiny repaired edge tears. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters.
  • Henrik Bloch (born 1931)

    Bakken in Wonderful Copenhagen (1965)

        Original vintage poster 100 x 63 cm Bakken (short for Dyrehavsbakken) is the world's oldest amusement park, located just out of Copenhagen. This poster was designed to promote tourism to Copenhagen and Denmark more widely, and features a pierrot clown smiling above a happy crowd of Bakken visitors. Condition: generally very good; a few very short edge tears and a little soft creasing bottom right. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters.
  • Nathan - Jacques Nathan-Garamond (1910 - 2001)

    Go by Train to Brittany (1956)

      Original vintage poster 101 x 62 cm Printed in France for and by the French Railways. This charming and cheering poster, featuring a blue sailing boat on a sandy beach with brightly-coloured houses behind, encourages us to explore France by train and make a sojourn to Brittany. Jacques Nathan Garamond (born Jacques Nathan) was a French graphic designer. He studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and became the Director of Contemporary Architecture there. He then began his career as a graphic designer, specialising in posters and commercial illustrations. He was a founding member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, a society for graphic artists and designers. Condition: generally very good; stains to bottom corners and six enlarged pin holdes to corners and middles of sides. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters.
  • Hugo Wetli (1916 - 1972)

    Switzerland - Afoot in the Swiss Jura

    Original vintage poster 100 x 64 cm Hugo Wetli trained as a technical draughtsman and then became apprenticed to a private graphic studio. He worked in Geneva and Berne as a painter and draughtsman, also producing book illustrations and travel poster designs. In 1947 he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and then ran his own graphic design studio. Condition: generally very good; old tape stain under 'Paseo' approx 2 cm sq and extending almost invisibly into image; a few pin holes to corners; a little soft creasing. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters.
  • Ronald T Horley (active 1930s - 1940s)

    The Gateway to Cornwall

    Charcoal heightened with white 76 x 53 cm Signed and inscribed lower right 'Architect's Office, 83 Marlborough Place NW8 Marylebone'. The Great Western Railway commissioned a series of posters promoting train travel around the UK. This charcoal drawing of the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash is the artist's original design for a poster encouraging rail travel to Devon and Cornwall. The bridge is known fondly as the 'Gateway to Cornwall'. The Royal Albert Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Surveying started in 1848 and construction commenced in 1854. The first main span was positioned in 1857 and the completed bridge was opened by Prince Albert on 2 May 1859. Condition: generally very good; a few isolated spots to bottom left corner. Click here for other original vintage travel posters and designs.
  • William McDowell (1888 - 1950)

    Shaw Savill Lines - Dominion Monarch

      Original vintage poster 103 x 64 cm McDowell's poster advertises the magnitude and majesty of the Dominion Monarch, which dwarfs other boats and sails boldly forwards. Dominion Monarch was a UK passenger and refrigerated cargo liner. Her name was a reference to the Dominion of New Zealand, and she was built for Shaw, Savill & Albion Line (the shipping line of P Henderson & Company, a British shipping firm). McDowell was a painter, draughtsman and commercial artist, born in the shipbuilding town of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. After leaving school he was apprenticed in the drawing office of the engineering firm Vickers, and eventually became a member of the Institute of Naval Architects. Shortly after the First World War, McDowell left naval architecture to become a full-time artist, producing murals for the liner Mauretania and other vessels, eventually settling in Wallasey, Cheshire. Many of his own paintings were of historical or maritime subjects, shown at the Walker Art Gallery and elsewhere. In 1919 he had a picture included in the RA Summer Exhibition. During the Second World War he was commissioned in the Royal Naval Scientific Service. Condition: generally very good, occasional repaired short edge tears, a little spotting primarily to blank panel at bottom and slightly creased at edges. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters.
  • after Maurice Utrillo (1883 - 1955)

    France: La Cathédrale de Reims

    Original vintage poster 100 x 62 cm Commissioned by the Ministère des Travaux Publics et des Transports and the Commissariat général au Tourisme. Printed in France, by and for the French Government. Printed by Braun & Cie, Mulhouse-Paris. This poster, featuring a Utrillo painting of Reims Cathedral, was printed by the French tourist board to encourage holidays to France. Utrillo's depiction of Reims is highly post-impressionist, with thick layers of impasto and an inventive colour palette. Maurice Utrillo was a French painter who specialised in post-impressionist cityscapes, particularly of Montmartre, where he lived. His mother was Suzanne Valadon, an artist's model who sat for several French painters, including Renoir. Utrillo's father is unknown, though the painter Miquel Utrillo acknowledged him as his own some years after his birth. Valedon became a painter herself after several years of modelling, and was mentored by Degas. She encouraged her son to become a painter, and he received positive critical attention in the 1910s, followed by international popularity in the following decade. He was awarded the Cross of the Légion d'Honneur in 1928 and is today known for his poetic depictions of Paris, especially Montmartre. He is buried there, in the Cimetière Saint-Vincent, having suffered from mental illness and alcoholism for most of his life. Condition: generally very good; a few tiny repaired edge tears. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters.
  • Harry Arthur Riley (1895 - 1966)

    Barmouth, North Wales, for Mountain, Sand & Sea

      Original vintage poster 100 x 60 cm Riley's vintage poster extols the virtues of visiting sunny Barmouth - the scene depicts dozens of attractively (if perhaps unrealistically) tanned holidaymakers, a bright blue sea, and a pretty coastal town. The poster was part of a series produced for British Railways, designed to encourage rail travel to beauty spots across Britain. Principally known as a commercial artist, Harry Riley RI’s iconic poster designs of the 1920s - 1960s and his bright, joyful and idyllic depictions of British seaside holiday destinations, such as Morecambe, Plymouth, Weston-Super-Mare and Ilfracombe, were used to advertise the British rail network and have come to define Post-War British leisure and travel. He was also known for this work with airliners such as BOAC and Qantas. Although not an easily identifiable name within the echelons of the mid-20th century commercial art scene, Riley’s works pay testament to a highly skilled and prolific artist whose visual style fittingly captures the idealistic and amber-tinted vision of early 1960s glamour that the era’s commercial and travel sectors strove to embody. Harry Riley studied at St Martin's School of Art and was soon commissioned to produce commercial art and poster designs for companies such as Selfridges and Fortnum & Mason. He became a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and worked as a cartoonist for the Daily Mail, later becoming President of the London Sketch Club. The bright and bold style of his art for British Railways has become instantly recognisable today and is an illustration of travel, leisure, and idealism in post-war Britain. Condition: colours good. Backed to board. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters.
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    Concorde

      Original vintage poster 102 x 64 cm A striking poster advertising the glamorous Concorde aircraft for British Airways. Concorde entered service in 1976 with Air France from Paris-Roissy and British Airways from London Heathrow. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Guy Georget (1911 - 1992)

    Espagne - Riders

    Original vintage poster 100 x 62 cm One of Georget's fantastic posters designed for the Spanish tourist board. Three riders in traditional dress, with the ladies riding side-saddle, and one with sherry in hand, pose mounted in front of a red and white striped background. The bold, bright colours make the poster typically Georget. Guy Georget was a commercial designer; most of his poster designs were published in the late 1940s. Hired by the tourist boards in their post-war spree of tourism encouragement, Georget designed posters influenced by the styles of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Condition: generally very good; a few tiny repaired edge tears. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage travel posters.
  • Guy Georget (1911 - 1992)

    Espagne - Pilgrims

      Original vintage poster 100 x 62 cm One of the fantastic posters Georget designed for the Spanish tourist board. Two pilgrims progress towards a typically Spanish church; Georget makes uses vibrant tones of bright blue, pink, and yellow to illustrate the scene. Guy Georget was a commercial designer; most of his poster designs were published in the late 1940s. Hired by the tourist boards in their post-war spree of tourism encouragement, Georget designed posters influenced by the styles of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Condition: generally very good; a few repaired edge tears including one at the top c. 80mm, one to left side c. 25 mm. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage travel posters.

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