There are so many great ‘lesser known’ artists that did fantastic work so nice to see Day getting some recognition in last week’s newspaper. The ‘take care alighting’ poster passed through my hands a couple of years ago. Only fetched £75, should have been a lot higher !!
Moving on to the second part of a Bromfield hat trick. Noticed a few interesting items finishing tomorrow including these two by Mr B Now nice as they are, there is a problem because of the message space they are only half there ! How to display ? do you ruin the poster by writing …
Certain names mark the era of this blog : Frank, Harry , Tom and now …… Ken. For some reason despite 4 years looking at a lot of vintage posters, I have bot really come across the work of Kenneth Bromfield Would love to tell you more about our Ken but even in today’s …
Spurred on by the Reginald Mount posters on Ebay right now I have entered the world of the Public Information Poster. An unlikely book exists on the subject Keep Britain Tidy: And Other Posters from the Nanny State (National Archives) by Hester Vasey This collection of public information posters from the period 194575 is published …
Today’s blog is a steal : sorry Ebay seller ‘oldbestposter’ After my semi pretentious post on Russian constructivism, I had a search for a day to day image from the Soviet era. This was quite difficult as everything was military or workers related. I finally came across this for sale right now by Mikhail Mitryashkin What …
I have put out so many sensible posts recently i think I deserve a bit of fun How about these crisp packets spotted on my Sunday pub walk ?
I think all of us with an interest in vintage graphics have been fooled by the odd ‘too good to be true’ purchase that turned out to be a repro I would put forward a simple 2 step process size : is the poster a standard ‘old money’ size, many many repros are either smaller …
For some reason German posters don’t seem to carry the Cachet of the Russian or French (with the exception of Hohlwein who we will cover later. Nor do they seem to cover the whimsical element beloved in Britain. One aspect where German posters are highly regarded are cars and in particular Mercedes / Daimler / …
German posters : from a straight eight to a Zeppelin over New York. Read More »
Get ready for some seriously expensive posters (2015 Christies.) First two by the Steinberg Brothers, yours for £10k a pop As I said yesterday, something off kilter and almost scar about the way the faces are . A precursor of the slasher movie ? The next one beats those ‘hands down’ Titled Battleship Potemkin 1905, its …
Here we delve into what I would like to call ‘art student territory’ . As a trained Engineer its a scary place to be ! Probably the opposite of our cosy British railway posters, certainly daring and in some case hard to understand. A definition : Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated …
