Prints and Posters

The Many Flags of Jasper Johns 2 Replies

In 1954, a young man of 24, familiar of the New York avant-gardes and close to Rauschenberg, decides to start his career with a bang. His name is Jasper Johns. The subject of his first painting is...

Tagged: Johns

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Oct 30.

Poster for Dream and Nightmare

Start with the nightmare. In 1934, Universal Studios already accumulated more than ten years of success in horror movies. The originality of that year is to highlight two star actors, Bela Lugosi a...

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki Oct 27.

The Sharaku Enigma 1 Reply

We better know the biographical details of Banksy than those of Sharaku: it may look incredible. Portraits of actors by Tōshūsai Sharaku are marvels of clarity in the design, and of expression of ...

Tagged: Sharaku

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Oct 19.

Picasso prints the Frugal Meal 1 Reply

The "Blue Period" of Picasso lasts from 1901 to 1904. The subjects are inspired by scenes of the show, the characters live their poverty with dignity, an expressive and precise line reminds us that...

Tagged: Vollard, Picasso

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Sep 25.

Summer Holidays with Roger Broders and Pierre Lafitte 1 Reply

Throughout the last century, France was the ideal country for tourism. The coverage of this country by the posters is incredibly tight and varied. Among the illustrators who were mainly expressing ...

Tagged: Lafitte, Broders

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Aug 6.

Albrecht Dürer, Gospel Illustrator 1 Reply

1511 was a key year for the woodcuts of Dürer. Over the previous ten years, he had prepared many religious images that were sold separately. In 1511 he grouped them in various sets, accompanied by ...

Tagged: Durer

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki May 12.

Art and Music at the Blaue Reiter 1 Reply

The "Almanach der Blaue Reiter", published in Munich in 1912, is a manifesto of modern art. This movement created by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in the previous year aimed to promote an art th...

Tagged: Marc, Kandinsky

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Apr 29.

Escher in his Other World 1 Reply

M. C. Escher is an artist of geometry. His work is perhaps better known than his name. It is based on impossible figures created by projections on geometric planes, like the Möbius strip, the Necke...

Tagged: Escher

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Mar 6.

The Happy Images of Rémy Hétreau 1 Reply

Rémy Hétreau (1913-2001) was a professional designer and illustrator. He was also an amateur painter, for the pleasure of sharing his poetic vision with relatives. This explains the abundance of wo...

Tagged: Hétreau

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Feb 13.

Ski in Chamonix and London 1 Reply

Among the traditional sales to start the new year at Christie's London, there is a sale of posters of winter sports. The next one is scheduled for January 28. We noted this year, at lot 31, a post...

Tagged: Tamagno

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Jan 31.

Birds of Double Elephant Size, by Audubon 3 Replies

Historians of big auction prices remember two important results achieved by Christie's in New York on collections of Audubon prints. Both had been recorded on the main work of this artist, The Bird...

Tagged: Audubon

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Jan 24.

2009 Auctions

AUCTION HOUSES referred below : Ader Site Drouot-Presse Bonhams Site Press Christie's Site Press Galerie Kornfeld Site and Press Heritage Auction Galleries Site Press Piasa Site Press Profiles in ...

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki Dec. 27, 2008.

2008 Auction History

All results in BOLD An early four-leaf panorama of Philadelphia is estimated $ 250 K on December 5 at Christie's New York, sale 2059, lot 283. (SOLD 300 K$ including fees) It is at Swann in New Y...

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki Dec. 24, 2008.

La Goulue and Valentin le Désossé on Stage in New York 1 Reply

The featured lot of the sale of Swann Galleries in New York on December 17 is at number 132 of the catalog. It is an original example of the most famous and first Lautrec poster, made in 1891 for ...

Tagged: Lautrec

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Dec. 18, 2008.

Rembrandt, printmaker 1 Reply

I am always surprised that prints of great ancient masters are still on the market at affordable prices. Yet some of these sheets have survived several centuries and represent an important part of ...

Tagged: Rembrandt

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Dec. 4, 2008.

The Scream (Skrik) 1 Reply

The "Scream" (in Norwegian, "Skrik"), painted by Edvard Munch in 1893, is one of the most famous works of art history. The artist made four versions of this painting. Edvard Munch is also one of t...

Tagged: Munch

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Oct. 31, 2008.

Gloomy prisons within the head of Piranesi 1 Reply

Let me take you today in one of the sites where Art is born: Lascaux. In recent years, the auction house Galateau conducts sales of books in Montignac-Lascaux. This auction house organizes most of ...

Tagged: Piranesi

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Oct. 3, 2008.

Utamaro captures a moment of happiness. 1 Reply

A copy of a masterpiece of Kitagawa Utamaro, Mono omou koi (Reflective Love), could be worth $ 1 million at Christie's in New York on September 18. She is a young woman shown in bust, in tradition...

Tagged: Utamaro

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Sep. 18, 2008.

Clowns of Cappiello offer chocolates 1 Reply

What makes the top prize for a poster is well known: rarity, size, signature, condition. At number 312 of the sale of posters of Swann Auction Galleries in New York on August 6, the presented lot s...

Tagged: Cappiello

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Aug. 7, 2008.

Dodo was a modest milliner (on a lithograph by Kirchner) 1 Reply

I have recently discussed some lithographs by Munchs. With Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, we change of century and fashion. Gentle, colorful, stylized, these are the adjectives that come to describe this p...

Tagged: kirchner

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Jun. 8, 2008.