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Macdonald (Max) Gill (1884-1947)
Australia: Her Natural and Industrial Resources (1950)
His Majesty’s Stationary Office, SO Code NO. 70-538-5-2 Lithographic poster 51 x 76cm (20 x 30 inches) Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. Condition generally very good, a little spotting and the odd very short edge tear to margin not affecting image. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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. -
SEM (Georges Goursat) (1863-1934)
Cannes
Lithographic poster in colours, printed by Draeger, Paris c. 1930. 121x81cm (48×32 inches); backed on linen (condition A-) If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Josep Artigas Ojeda (1919-1992)
Vevey, Switzerland (Summer) c.1955-60 Lithographic poster 98x64cm Josep Artigas was one of the most important Spanish poster designers -
JAK (Raymond Allen Jackson) 1927-1997
"I think we should let the Germans keep it next time" (1992)
Visitez La Belle France, Fly Air France 51x59cm Pen, ink and monochrome wash with inscriptions in pencil. For the London Evening Standard JAK was one of Britian's best-known political cartoonists, working for the London Evening Standard and the Daily Mail between the 1950s and 1990s. He left school at the age of 14, and after a brief career as a messenger boy studied at Willesden College of Technology, studying art with the aim of becoming an art teacher. Following National Service (in the Territorial Army, teaching conscripts to paint), in 1950 he became a staff artist at Link House Publications, and then at advertising agency J Keymer & Co. Whilst working here he submitted cartoons to Punch and other journals, joining the Evening Standard in 1952 as illustrator, also drawing occasional cartoons. In 1966, following the suicide of 'Vicky' (Victor Weisz), he became policital cartoonist at the Evening Standard. Some of his cartoons were highly controversial. In 1970 he caricatured power workers (then striking to improve their conditions) as stupid, greedy and deaf to reason; the entire Evening Standard staff nearly went on strike in response. In 1982 a cartoon in response to the Northern Ireland situation (he frequently depicted Irish people negatively) caused Ken Livingstone to withdraw all advertising from the Standard. His style was distinctive, drawn in ink on 17" x 21.5" board using a mapping pen and brush. His signature was always in a bottom corner, with blob-like serifs, and the title and other instructions were drawn on the picture in pencil. He also drew cartoons for the Mail on Sunday, Daily Express, and Sunday Express. -
Donald Brun (1909-1999)
Primavera in Svizzera (1945) Lithographic poster Printed by Swiss National Tourist Office, Zurich 40×25 inches This poster won a Swiss Poster award in 1945 Donald Brun produced his famous series of posters for Switzerland as global travel became more possible. Here a Swiss steamer boat is seen crossing Lake Geneva (presumably) as a lamb celebrates spring, cavorting with a bee and a butterfly. -
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. -
Hans Falk (1918-2002)
Sport au Soleil en Suisse
Original Vintage Poster (1957) Lithograph 40x25" Signed in the plate, and showing a procession of brightly-coloured skiers heading up the mountain towards the sun. Falk was a Swiss graphic designer who spent much of his life in the USA, UK and Ireland, producing many striking and popular posters. -
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. -
Anonymous
Holland via Harwich Original Vintage Poster
Lithograph 98.5x61cm 102x64cm including frame If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally good, slight water mark in upper left corner. -
'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. -
'Samivel' Paul Gayet-Tancrède (1907-1992)
Le Parc National de la Vanoise, Alpes de Savoie
Editions Mythra SA Chamonix Original Vintage Ski Poster 99x62cm Condition: Excellent, with four small glue marks to reverse not affecting image. With the ever-popular topic of skiing, Samivel here catches a Marmot atop a Vanoise hill, a mountain peak in the background. The Marmot, a squirrel-like rodent, is always a sign of the impending end of the ski season as it comes out with the warmer weather as spring approaches. Click here to see other posters by Samivel. 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. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
'Samivel' Paul Gayet-Tancrède (1907-1992)
Chamonix Mont Blanc, France - au centre d'un monde de cristal
Imprimé en France pour l'office du tourisme de Chamonix par l'imprimerie generale a Grenoble Original Vintage Ski Poster 99x62cm Condition: excellent With the ever-popular topic of mountains for climbing and skiing, Samivel here draws one of the Aiguille or Aiguillettes - needles - in Chamonix which are famous for climbers. 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. -
'Samivel' Paul Gayet-Tancrède (1907-1992)
Du Léman à La Méditerranée, La Grande Traversée des Alpes Françaises
('From Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean, La Grande Traversée of the French Alps') Imprimé en France - Printed in France 1975 Original Vintage Ski Poster 99x62cm Condition: excellent With the ever-popular topic of mountains for climbing and skiing, Samivel here draws a snow-covered col in the mountains. La Grande Traversée is a long-distance walking route from Thonon les Bains to Nice, set up in the early 1970s. 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. -
José Ortega (1921 - 1990)
"Don Quixote" Espagne
Original vintage poster c. 1960 99 x 65 cm Printed in Barcelona for the Publications de la Direccion General del Turismo. Ortega's poster is an abstract depiction Don Quixote (the Spanish hero written by Miguel de Cervantes), complete with his distinctive hat and spear. Ortega designed the poster for the Spanish tourist board, using an illustrious figure from Spain's literary heritage to encourage people to visit Spain. 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. 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 - 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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Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Alpes French Railways - The Alps
Original Poster for French Railways SNCF 40x25" (100x67cm) Printed by Draeger Printed in France for and by the French National Railways, 1970 Signed and dated in the stone 1969 Printed on wove - a thicker paper than the standard poster which is also textured. Condition: very good -
Walther Koch (1875-1915) Zug Berg und Strassenbahn
Original lithographic poster (1914) 40x30" Printed in Zurich by Anstalt Gebr Fretz If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Uxbridge Station Poster c.1930 Printed by HMSO
Lithograph 100x62cm This four coloured lithograph was printed in extremely limited numbers for London Transport by HMSO. These maps detailed station entrances and were placed along the underground network to inform commuters exactly where they were in London. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good, slight bruising to the very edges in places, and a little touching in of the red border. -
Hubert Mathieu
Téléferique du Béout: Lourdes (1952)
Lithographic poster 100x62cm Complete with a ski cable car in the place famous as a place of Roman Catholic pilgrimage. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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. -
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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. -
Anonymous
Berlin (1955)
Lithographic poster 84 x 61 cm Original Vintage Poster Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche from Kurfürstendamm by Night A view of the 'Champs Elysee' of Berlin, the main shopping street in 1955. Although it was designed just ten years after the Second World War's end, when much of the city still bore the scars of devastating conflict, the poster still manages to evoke a pre-war idea of Berlin (especially seen through the glamorous lens of the postwar 1950s). Fashionable figures cross the street, the cars are the latest and brightest, and the humming city is reflected in the wet road. This poster was designed to be overprinted with the name of the local airline. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Backed to linen. Small loss to bottom left corner in margin; a little white spotting to the 'Berlin' panel. -
Suisse Chutes du Rhin
Original lithographic poster (1925) 40x25" If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally good, a little edge wear. -
Ente Nazionale Italiano per il Turismo (The Italian Government Tourist Board)
PISA - ITALY - LAND OF YOUR DREAMS
Lithographic poster 101 x 63.5 cm If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Pin-holes to corners; not backed. -
Carl Kunst (1884-1912) Bilgeri Ski Ausrüstung
51x85cm Lithographic poster Reichhold & Lang, Lith. Kunstanstalt GMBH München A view of the Matterhorn - the obvious mountain in the background - near Zermatt in Switzerland, made for Bilgeri Week in Bregenz with old-fashioned wooden skis and poles c. 1910. Bilgeri were an Austrian manufacturer of skis. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Lance Cottermole A Map of Northumberland & Durham, UK
1949 Lithographic poster Published for Railway Executive 102x63cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Backed to linen, repaired tear, presents very well. -
Kerry Lee (1903-1988)
'Cambridge' Original Poster Map c. 1965
45x58cm Original Vintage Lithographic poster Published by Pictorial Maps Limited, Kerry Lee's own company The first edition of this map was 1947; this is a later edition showing as it does Fitzwilliam College in its new location on the Huntingdon Road where it moved in 1963, but still referring to it as Fitzwilliam House - it became a college in 1966. Well known as a creator of pictorial maps of British cities from the mid 20th century, he generally draws a self-portrait in the bottom corner by his signature - as here, where he is seen (mustachioed and bearded, and clad in a green tunic) with his ever-faithful dog Jim. Educated at Reading Schools of Arts and Science, the Slade and the Sorbonne in Paris, he subsequently assisted his step-father, an architect named Mr Harvey, as draftsman. Following the Depression Lee set up 'Associated Artists' at Blandford Studios off Baker Street, with a group of other commercial artists. During World War 2 he was based in Hertfordshire creating detailed cut-away drawings of German aircraft, and after the war - still at Blandford Studios - published a series of pictorial maps, both those for British Rail and also his own publications. -
Sassi
Italian Line Societa di Navigatione Italia
Original Vintage Poster 97.5x61cm c.1950s A wonderful example of Italian surreal poster artwork, with a fish made from fruit and vegetables and a very sleek modern ship beneath. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Mounted to board, some areas of repair as visible in image towards bottom, overall good. -
Donald Brun (1909-1999)
Swissair to Japan
Lithographic poster 40x25 inches If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Alpes French Railways - The Alps
Original Poster for French Railways SNCF 40x25" (100x67cm) Printed by Draeger Printed in France for and by the French National Railways, 1970 Signed and dated in the stone 1969 Condition: very good, slight age toning/handling wear to very edges as usual -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Fred Taylor (1875-1963)
Lincoln -Early English Architeture (L.N.E.R)
Printed for London North Eastern Railway Lithographic poster c. 1930 40×25 inches If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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. -
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. -
Vorarlberg Austria
Lithographic poster Printed G Gistel 81x50cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
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. -
A E Agar (artist) Original advertising poster for Shaw Savill Albion Line, c. 1940s or 1950s.
51x38cm Provenance: the artist's estate Fine image of ocean liner. From the great age of Ocean Liners. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
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. -
Anonymous Boston Museum Centennial 1870-1970
"Mandala of Eight Bodhisatlvas, Nepal 12th Century, Centennial Acquisition" 97x70cm Vintage poster 1970 If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Anonymous Boston Museum Centennial 1870-1970
"Narcissus Tapestry, French or Franco-Flemish, Late 15th or 16th Century, Centennial Acquisition" 97x70cm Vintage poster 1970 If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Two repaired edge tears to right margin, not into image, one 3" long, other shorter; one repaired short tear to left. -
Switzerland of Tomorrow Welcomes You Today (1964)
Lithographic poster 152.4cm x 63.5 cm 1964 Original "Switzerland of Tomorrow" poster from the 1964 Swiss National Exhibition. As well as a brilliantly-designed futuristic poster printed in rich colours, it is a real piece of Swiss (and European) history. The poster is the English-language edition of a tourism-encouraging poster produced in several languages to welcome international visitors to an exhibition of Swiss innovation. Switzerland holds such an event four times per century, and the exhibitions often act as a portrait of contemporary culture, design, and politics. The 1964 National Exhibition in Lausanne offered a rather different representation of Switzerland from previous exhibitions. This was partly the result of its being held during one of the tensest periods of the Cold War; the attitudes of the Swiss were changing as the twentieth century progressed, as was the case for most Europeans, and the shadow of war had encouraged many citizens, businesses, and public bodies to reexamine their values. At "Expo 64", the nickname for that year's exhibition, the 'Gulliver Project' was introduced. The exhibition organisers made use of the character Gulliver (from Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' to assess visitors' attitudes to daily life. A small questionnaire written by "Gulliver" was given to visitors, asking them questions about their societal attitudes, domestic lives, and work ethics, such as "Can you be a good Swiss and get up at 9am?". The theatre director Charles Apothéloz suggested having Gulliver ask these questions so as to make the questionnaire seem less serious, and to encourage people to answer truthfully. The questionnaire answers were compiled and analysed, but never published, as had been Apothéloz's initial intention. Charles Ascher discusses this at length in his 1965 article 'Gulliver in the Land of the Swiss'. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good, pinholes to corners with some soft creases along bottom inch (would be hidden by mount). -
Innsbruck Tyrol Austria
Lithographic poster 47x47cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Austria: Osterreich
Lithographic poster 81x50cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056.
