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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 -
'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. -
Risch Lau (publisher) Silvretta-Hochalpenstrasse, Vorarlberg, Austria / Osterreich
Original poster c. 1950s 61x43cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good. -
'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. -
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. -
Jean Brian (1910-90)
X Jeux Olympiques d'Hiver (1968 Winter Olympics Grenoble France)
1968 Lithographic poster 95.1x 63.4cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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. -
Sun Valley
Original lithographic poster c. 1965 76x51cm Published by LooArt Press, Colorado The resort was the first destination winter resort in the US and was developed by W A Harriman, the chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad to increase passenger numbers. The Austrian Count Schaffgotsch was instructed to find a suitable site and Sun Valley was born. Sun Valley was the site of the world's first chairlifts as single-seat chairs were installed in 1936 for the opening. The poster is believed to depict Sigfried 'Sigi' Engl, an Austrian who became director of Sun Valley Ski School in 1952 and made it famous for his innovative instructional methods. A few light creases and small spot towards top right. -
Innsbruck: Austria
Lithographic poster Printed Tiroler Graphik 70x50cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Salzburg: Land of Happy Holidays
Lithographic poster 84x59cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Vorarlberg Austria
Lithographic poster Printed G Gistel 81x50cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056.
