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France - Cathedrale d'Albi, Toulouse
Original vintage poster 60 x 40 cm The Basilique Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d'Albi (Cathedral Basilica of Saint Cecilia), also known as Albi Cathedral, is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Albi. First built in the aftermath of the Albigensian Crusade, the grim exterior resembles a fortress, but the interior is lavishly decorated with art and sculpture, a very ornate choir screen, and walls in bright blues and golds, in the Toulousian or Southern French Gothic. It was begun in 1282 and was under construction for 200 years. It is claimed to be the largest brick building in the world. In 2010 the cathedral, along with its episcopal buildings, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its unique architecture and the remarkable consistency in its design. Condition: small tear to lower left corner; some wear to corners. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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. -
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Rousillon Original Poster for French National Railways SNCF (1969)
98 x 62 cm Lithographic posterThis is one example of the seven posters Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904-1989) designed for the French National Railways in the late 1960s and early 1970s - click here for the others.Condition: Generally very good - a little creasing to the very edges. -
Albert Herndl (photographer)
Musée des Beaux Arts, Vienna, Austria / Osterreich (c.1950s)
Original lithographic poster 61x43cm -
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. -
Waimea Bay, Hawaii 1964 Vintage Surfing Poster of Mike Doyle Champion Surfer
67 x 53 cm Poster (lithograph) Printed by Looart Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado (1964) Waimea Bay Hawaii vintage 1964 surfing poster, with photograph of legendary surfer Mike Doyle on a wave on the north coast of Hawaii, taken by the iconic Californian surf photographer Leroy Grannis (1917-2011). Born in California in 1941, Doyle was first capitvated at the age of thirteen by surfing. The epitome of a surfer; tanned, chiseled features, charismatic and permanently smiling. He won readers polls in 1964 and 1965 in Surfer magazine, and in 1966 was voted Surfer's 'Top International Surfer'. Direct from the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. The poster is in generally excellent condition. -
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.
