Vintage Posters: Winter-Spring 2020 Highlights

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Ski poster enthusiasts always find something appealing in our winter Vintage Posters auction, but most exciting is the offering of rare and important Art Nouveau posters, which features some of the most famous works by key artists of the era. Also included are many wonderful works from that period that may not be as well known, but are equally impressive.

Art Nouveau

Notable artists of the fin de siècle era include Jules Chèret, Georges de Feure, Eugène Grasset, Arnost Hofbauer, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.

Evelyn Rumsey Carey, Pan American Exposition / Niagara / Buffalo, 1901. $7,000 to $10,000.
Evelyn Rumsey Carey, Pan American Exposition / Niagara / Buffalo, 1901. $7,000 to $10,000.
Arnost Hofbauer, Topicuv Salon, 1898. $5,000 to $7,500.
Arnost Hofbauer, Topicuv Salon, 1898. $5,000 to $7,500.
Alphonse Mucha, Job, 1896. $12,000 to $18,000.
Alphonse Mucha, Job, 1896. $12,000 to $18,000.
Georges de Feure, Le Journal des Ventes, 1898. $4,000 to $6,000
Georges de Feure, Le Journal des Ventes, 1898. $4,000 to $6,000.

Art Nouveau Cycling Posters

Alphonse Mucha, Cycles Perfecta, 1897. $15,000 to $20,000.
Alphonse Mucha, Cycles Perfecta, 1897. $15,000 to $20,000.
Edward Penfield, Orient Cycles / Lead the Leaders, circa 1895. $8,000 to $12,000.
Edward Penfield, Orient Cycles / Lead the Leaders, circa 1895. $8,000 to $12,000.
Adrien Barrère, L’Ideal du Touriste, 1903. $3,000 to $4,000.
Adrien Barrère, L’Ideal du Touriste, 1903. $3,000 to $4,000.

Travel Posters

Willem Frederick Ten Broek, New York / Wereldtentoonselling / Holland – Amerika Lijn, 1938. $6,000 to $9,000.
Willem Frederick Ten Broek, New York / Wereldtentoonselling / Holland – Amerika Lijn, 1938. $6,000 to $9,000.

Winter Resort & Ski Posters

The skiiers and aspiring chalet-dwellers among us will delight at scarce posters for Sun Valley by Dwight Shepler and Winters in Switzerland by Emil Cardinaux. Also available are ski images by Sascha Maurer, José Morell and Knut Yran.

Dwight Clark Shepler, Sun Valley / Union Pacific.
Dwight Clark Shepler, Sun Valley / Union Pacific. $8,000 to $12,000.
Sascha Maurer, Flexible Flyer Splitkein / Smuggler’s Notch, circa 1935. $2,000 to $3,000.
Sascha Maurer, Flexible Flyer Splitkein / Smuggler’s Notch, circa 1935. $2,000 to $3,000.
Emil Cardinaux, Winter in der Schweiz, 1921. $12,000 to $18,000.
Emil Cardinaux, Winter in der Schweiz, 1921. $12,000 to $18,000.

Twentieth Century

Art Deco

Louis Bonhajo, Vote / League of Women Voters, 1920. $2,000 to $3,000.
Louis Bonhajo, Vote / League of Women Voters, 1920. $2,000 to $3,000.
Aryeh El-Hanani, Come & See the Palestine Exhibition in Vienna, 1925. $1,500 to $2,000.
Aryeh El-Hanani, Come & See the Palestine Exhibition in Vienna, 1925. $1,500 to $2,000.
Ludwig Bemelmans, You Get More in The New York Times, 1950s. $800 to $1,200.
Ludwig Bemelmans, You Get More in The New York Times, 1950s. $800 to $1,200.

Work Incentive Posters

Robert Beebe, The Game is Won in the 9th Inning / Never Quit Before Quitting, 1923. $800 to $1,200.
Robert Beebe, The Game is Won in the 9th Inning / Never Quit Before Quitting, 1923. $800 to $1,200.
Chance Takers Keep Hospitals Busy / Don’t Trade Your Life for Ten Seconds!, designer unknown, 1925. $4,000 to $6,000.
Chance Takers Keep Hospitals Busy / Don’t Trade Your Life for Ten Seconds!, designer unknown, 1925. $4,000 to $6,000.

Exhibition Begins February 8

The exhibition is free to attend and open to the public. We welcome special and educational groups with advance notice—send an inquiry to [email protected].

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