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image "Marchal" by anonymous
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60" Poster on Archival Paper The promotional conceit here is rather simple: What cat's eyes are to vision, Marchal spark plugs are to mechanical excellence. In the catalogue raisonne of the artist's work, titled ""Jean Colin/Affichiste,"" by Anne-Claude Lelieur and Raymond Bachollet, it's noted that ""In 1955, an in-house graphic designer for the H. Camy firm drew a small cat's head in the corner of a [Marchal] advertisement . . . Without being the inventor of the cat, Jean Colin is incontestably the one that a few years later gave it promotion heart. This small animal, black like the night, with eyes yellow as headlights, the intelligent mustache and the malicious smile, behind the wheel of an automobile, strikes a particularly sympathetic nerve. In the ensuing years, the same cat would animate various press releases, always bearing Jean Colin's signature on them, charmingly capped with the helmet of a race car driver"" (p. 159). "Hotchkiss
Automobile Poster" by anonymous Size 18" x
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60" Poster on Archival Paper The first Hotchkiss cars were Mercedes-like, and offered in two models at the 1903 Paris motor show. Powered by T-head fours, they featured ball-bearing crankshafts and round radiators, and, of course, the namesake drivetrain. Shortly thereafter, a more extensive range of cars was offered, fours and sixes of various sizes, T-heads and L-heads, but World War I diverted the company back to origins of weapons manufacturing. "Salon de
L'Automobile" by anonymous Size 18" x
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60" Poster on Archival Paper 1949 Promotion for a nearly month-long car and cycle show. What an exquisitely imaginative way to promote a nearly month-long car and cycle show. By having the golden sedan shooting the curl of the cascading bicycle blueprint - and setting it all against a subtly textured midnight-blue background - Delpy slyly invites us to catch the wave of the future in the world of transportation. Really rather brilliant in its own unassuming free-associative sort of way. "Automobile
Show/Buffalo" by Claybaugh Size 18" x
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60" Poster on Archival Paper Short shadows, wintry lavender light... This poster announces the 20th Annual Auto Show at the 74th Armory in Buffalo, New York. Short shadows, wintry lavender light... This poster announces the 20th Annual Auto Show at the 74th Armory in Buffalo, New York. The depiction of the armory - still standing at the corner of Connecticut and Niagara Streets - is historically accurate and so is the generic auto, but for Buffalo in January, the snowless scene in front of the building is something of a fantasy. We find no data on the talented Claybaugh; it is likely that he was a local illustrator. Rare! "Bil-Bol
Nude Sexy Car" by Akseli Gallen - Kallela Size 18" x
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60" Poster on Archival Paper 1907 A nude woman becomes the rapturous icon of the technological and sexual revolutions in a diabolic flaming red cabriolet built by Bil-aktie-Bol, Car Company, Inc. Bil-Bol is a visionary image that heralds the coming age of the automobile. By depicting a nude woman in a red cabriolet--one who appears to have been rapturously abducted--dashing through a night sky illuminated by stars, the design also looks forward to the automobile becoming a quintessential icon of the technological and sexual revolution in the global post-World War II community. Significantly, it would seem that already in 1907, Gallen-Kallela realized the commercial potential of fast cars and attractive women. The poster utilizes feminine beauty as a decoy to attract the male buyers eye. The poster is also one of the first commercial promotions in which the Dollar-grin fender of a fast car is exposed to the public. Gallen-Kallela received the commission for the poster directly from the owner of the Bill-aktie-Bolaget (translating directly as Car Company Inc.), Mr. Yrjo Weilin. Mr. Weilin took the designer for a wild ride through the streets of Helsinki in a Bil-Bol, scaring the hell out of pedestrians and horses alike. His drive in the red devils machine clearly served as an inspiration for the poster he would create. The stylized flames and stars surrounding the crimson vehicle echo Gallen-Kallelas Art Nouveau/Jugendstil visual language familiar from many of his fin-de-siecle paintings and graphic works. At the same time, Bil-Bol embraces a twentieth-century commercial poster aesthetic by elevating the luxury item as a fulcrum of the buyers desires. This poster was featured in the recent Art Nouveau show in London and Washington D.C. Ghislaine Wood, assistant curator of the Art Nouveau exhibit, gave this appreciation of the Gallen-Kallela poster in the catalogue: Folk culture was often used as a vehicle to express modernity.The Kalevala folk story of the Sbatching of Kyllikki has been transformed: the sledge becomes a red car and Lemminkainen, the hero, is a besuited motor-car fanatic. Bil-Bol is perhaps one of the earliest advertisements overtly to endow a product with a value that is symbolic, here the promise of sexual fulfillment; a value that has been a mainstay of advertising in the twentieth century. (Art Nouveau, pp 19-160). Extremely rare. "Delahye" by anonymous Size 18" x
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60" Poster on Archival Paper The Delahaye coming over the horizon makes for one of the most perfect automobile posters ever created. (The design was so popular that it was reprinted three years later with few changes other than color and an updated grill.) The positioning of the type parallel with the horizon line is especially effective. Although the public most fondly remembers Delahaye as a fast French sporting and racing car of the late 1930s, the brand actually had a 60-year span beginning in 1894. The line was dropped only in 1954 when the company was taken over by Hotchkiss, a truck maker. Little is known of Roger Perot, an architect who produced only a few posters.
"'39 Mercury Street Rod Bones" Open
edition photo print on paper Size: 24 x 36 Size: 32 x 44 Size: 44 x 60 "Bugatti" by Gerold Hunziker Size 18" x
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60" Poster on Archival Paper 1932 Beautiful Bugatti poster. Ettore Bugatti built some of the most fabulous automobiles in history. Though they were quite expensive., what set Bugatti apart from other designers was his unique ability as an artist--his automobiles were like sculptures, his engines like jewels. As an engineer, he was imperious, and yet, an incredible aesthete. This Gerold design--most probably the 8-cylinder Royale model--more than lives up to the artistry set forth by its automotive inspiration. Executed in nighttime shades and bearing down head-on towards the viewer, the feeling of power conveyed by the poster is intense, yet it does so without any manner of graphically indicated speed. The artist simply lets the car speak for itself and wisely moves out of its path. Rare. "Childrens
Au Bon Marche Roadster" by anonymous Size 18" x
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60" Poster on Archival Paper "Rat Rod
Louvered Hood Poster" Open edition photo
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60 "Karlek och
Bensin" by anonymous Size 18" x
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60" Poster on Archival Paper Even if you don't speak a word of Swedish, the bright toy-like graphics of this poster tell you that you are dealing with something fun. This is, in fact, a film poster for the Swedish release of the 1930 German romantic comedy with music, Drei von der Tankstelle (Those Three At The Gas Station). Starring in the Chevalier-like German actor Willy Fritsch and Lillian Harvey, an enchanting singer who traded her talents for Viennese opera to become a queen of silent comedy. The light-hearted plot involves three down-on-their-luck buddies who pool their resources to open a service station; each falls in love with the same free-spirited heiress. Of course it all works out - so charmingly, indeed, that the romp is still fondly remembered and revived in German retrospectives. "1933 Ford
V8 Engine Poster" by anonymous Size 18" x
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Driving Pleasure Auto Poster" by Batler Size 18" x
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