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Period: 1940s
Bambi
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for the classic Walt Disney production.
The artwork was designed by great French poster artist Alexis (dates unknown) and was unique to the French poster....
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$4,804
Extremely Rare Original Vintage War Poster Freedom Is In Peril Defend It WWII
Located in London, GB
Extremely rare large size original vintage World War Two poster - Freedom Is In Peril Defend It With All Your Might - issued as part of the same propaganda campaign as the Keep Calm ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Onverbreekbaar Katholiek Thuisfront WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster issued by Katholiek Thuisfront / Catholic Homeland Front featuring two silhouette illustrations of tanks by palm trees and a navy shi...
Category
Dutch Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Tarzan Triumphs / Le Triomphe de Tarzan
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for the 1943 film Tarzan Triumphs.
This adventure film was directed by Wilhelm Thiele, and was based on the characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Johnny Weissmuller...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Railway Poster Travel Canadian Pacific Across Canada Train Art
By Peter Ewart
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Travel Canadian Pacific Across Canada! Stunning artwork by Peter Ewart (1918-2001) depicting a steam trai...
Category
Canadian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Out of the Past
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card number 8 for the 1947 Film Noir Out of the Past.
The film Starred Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas and was was directed Jacques Tourneur.
The piece ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$1,304
Notorious
Located in London, GB
Original US trade advertisement from the first release of this Hitchcock Classic, 1946 thriller Notorious.
The film starred Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine.
Th...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$617
"Kiss the Blood Off My Hands / Le Sans Peur" Original Belgium Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Belgium movie poster for Norman Foster's 1948 film Noir starring Jane Fontaine, Burt Lancaster.
The art work on this poster is unique to...
Category
Belgian Vintage 1940s Posters
Original Charles Kiffer Lithograph of Alhambra Theatre Maurice Chevalier
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful original Mid-Century Modern lithograph was created for the inauguration of the new Alhambra Theater, featuring Maurice Chevalier, circa 1948. It features the actor don...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster For Martha
s Vineyard By The New Haven Railroad
By Ben Nason
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Martha's Vineyard published by The New Haven Railroad featuring a bold illustration of a figurehead in front of a...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Washington American Airlines McKnight Kauffer USA
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Washington American Airlines - featuring fantastic artwork by one of the most renowned poster artists of the 20th century Edward McKnight...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Walt Disney Presents the World
s Greatest Shorts
Located in London, GB
This rare original British animation poster was designed to advertise Walt Disney shorts. In England posters were not produced for every short cartoon, ...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Located in London, GB
Original candid photographic production still for the 1948 drama, adventure film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
This film starred Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and was directed b...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Big Shot / Le Caid
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster from the 1942 Film Noir.
These large French posters were designed to be pasted onto billboards throughout France, and...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$13,041
The Philadelphia Story
Located in London, GB
Original colour studio promotional photograph for the classic 1940 comedy
starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart.
This piece is conservation framed with in a Tuli...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Taisez Vous Be Quiet Spies Remain Post WWII Occupation
Located in London, GB
Original vintage post-occupation World War Two French propaganda poster - Taisez Vous ... l'Allemand a fui, L'Espion Rester! / Be quiet ... The Germans may have left, but their spies remain! Colourful image featuring a German spy with his face highlighted in red against the green shaded background wearing a Nazi uniform...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Secret Beyond the Door
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1948 Film Noir Secret Beyond the Door.
This film was directed Fritz Lang and starred Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave.
This poster is conservation li...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$1,304
Original Vintage Travel Poster Wallis Zwitserland Erich Hermes Switzerland Swiss
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Wallis Zwitserland / Valais Switzerland featuring a scenic view by the notable painter and poster artist Erich Hermes (1881-1971) depicting people ...
Category
Swiss Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Norway A Fighting Ally Viking Boat War Ships Planes
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster for Norway... - A Fighting Ally! featuring a colourful design depicting a sailor looking out to sea with a traditional Viking boat...
Category
Norwegian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Australia Land Of Tomorrow Immigration Joe Greenberg
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster - Australia land of tomorrow - featuring a bright and colourful design by the Australian artist Joe Greenberg (Joseph Greenberg; 1923-2007) depicting a rural ...
Category
Australian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Grapes of Wrath / Les Raisins de la Coiere
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for the 1940 masterpiece directed John Ford and starred Henry Fonda, John Carradine, Jane Darwell.
The striking artwork is by Bernard Lancy (1892-1964) an...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Movie Poster Air Force WWII Military Aviation Film Howard Hawks
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for the French release of a 1943 American World War Two aviation film about the crew of a bomber plane in Pearl Harbour who are sent to Manila to help with the defence of the Philippines following the Japanese attack - Air Force - directed by Howard Hawks...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Ladri di Biciclette / Bicycle Thieves
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for 1948 landmark Neo-Realism film
Ladri di Biciclette / Bicycle Thieves. This film was directed by Vittorio De Sica and starred Lamberto Maggiorani, En...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Little Whirlwind
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for Walt Disney's 1941 short animation.
This is an exceptionally fare poster for the 1941 Mickey Mouse short.
There are belived to be no more than five of t...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$17,159
Original Vintage WWII Poster It
s Our War Canada Propaganda Art Eric Aldwinckle
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster featuring a dynamic design by Eric Aldwinckle (1901-1980) of a hand clenching a hammer against a red, white and blue shaded background with the ...
Category
Canadian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Brighton Rock
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the 1947 Crome thriller Brighton Rock.
This film was directed by John Boulting and starred Richard Attenborough, Hermonie Baddeley, William Hartnell....
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$4,049
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster New Orleans Southern Pacific Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - New Orleans Part of your trip across America on Southern Pacific Railroad - featuring a colourful design depicting a scenic view of the h...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1947 Film Noir starring Lawrence Tierney and Ted North and directed by Felix E. Feist.
This poster is conservation paper backed and it would be shipp...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$1,029
The Phantom of the Opera / Il Fantasma Dell
Opera
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1943 Horror film The Phantom of the Opera.
This film was directed by Arthur Lubin. The cast includes Nelson ...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$3,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Film Poster for, "Odd Man Out"
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster from the first release of the film in the UK in 1948
Odd Man Out is a classic British film that fits the film noir definition ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Salute The Soldier WWII National Savings Home Front
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two National Savings home front poster - Keep on Saving Salute the Soldier - featuring an image of soldiers in uniform marching w...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Skiing Poster Winter Sports In France Jean Leger Ski
By Jean Leger
Located in London, GB
Original vintage skiing poster advertising Winter Sports in France featuring a great design depicting a couple on skis enjoying the view of the snowy mountains below the blue sky bac...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Military Propaganda Poster Blenheim Bomber Submarine Nazi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two military propaganda poster - A British Blenheim Bomber of the Coastal Command Aids a British Destroyer in Smashing a German Submarine - featuring a col...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Lady from Shanghai
Located in London, GB
Original Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly March 18th 1948 This Film Noir The Lady from Shanghai starred Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles and...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Go West
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still for the American comedy Go West directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx.
Thi...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$480
Pinocchio
Located in London, GB
Original artwork used to create the British front of house stills. Gouache on artboard.
This original artwork features the films scene where Pinocchio is under the sea.
Exceptionally rare. Original artworks rarely surface, as the majority were destroyed.
Pieces on the Classic Disney films are always highly prized. This original artwork only recently surfaced, and was previously owned by an English lady, who had been given this piece in the 1940s. Prior to this discovery no other Pinocchio artwork for posters or front of house stills had been seen.
Walt Disney's second animated feature film was made after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, (1937). Pinocchio, the world’s most famous wooden puppet, is originally the creation of the Italian writer and social commentator Carlo Collodi. Entitled The Adventures of Pinocchio...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paint
$6,863
Original Vintage Travel Poster Air France Airline Corsica Corse Eric Midcentury
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Air France Corse / Corsica featuring scenic artwork by Eric (Raoul Eric Castel; 1915-1997) showing an Air France propeller plane flying over tradit...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Dog Map Of The World Canine Joseph Patterson Sims
Located in London, GB
Original vintage map poster - Dog Map of the World - designed by Joseph Patterson Sims (1890-1953) featuring a colourful pictorial map with decorative illustrations including a compa...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Asturias Summer Vacations Beaches Mountains Spain
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Summer Vacations on the Beaches and Mountains of Asturias / Veraneo En Playas Y Montanas De Asturias - featuring a colourful view by Alfonso Iglesias...
Category
Spanish Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Salut A La Resistance Et En Avant! Forward Fighters
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Salute to the Resistance and forward / Salut a la Resistance et en avant! - featuring artwork of resistance fighters in the foreground, two me...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Join American Red Cross" Vintage WWII Recruitment Poster by R. C. Kauffmann
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is an original WWII Red Cross recruitment poster. The poster was illustrated by R. C. Kauffmann and printed during the war. The poster shows a Red Cross nurse at the center...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Great Expectations" Original Belgian Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian movie poster for David Lean's film adaptation of Charles Dickens famous novel. The artwork on this poster is unique to the film B...
Category
Belgian Vintage 1940s Posters
Festival Mondial Du Film Beau-Arts De Belgique
By Felix Labisse
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian film poster for the Festival Mondial du Film Beau-Arts de Belgique (La Naissance du Cinema Lumiere Melies)
Mondial du Film et Des Beaux-Artsheld in Brussels, Belgiu...
Category
Belgian Vintage 1940s Posters
Original Vintage Travel Poster BEA London Trafalgar Square Westminster Chapman
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for London by British European Airways BEA featuring design by Kenneth George Chapman (1908-1993) depicting a black and white illustration of a smiling...
Category
British Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Spiral Staircase / La Scala Al Chiocciola
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1946 mystery, horror film The Spiral Staircase.
This film was directed by Robert Siodmak and stared Dorothy McGuire...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Hit Back With Your War Savings WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Hit Back With Your War Savings - featuring a dynamic image in black, blue and red colours of a worker holding a sle...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Capri Island Of The Sun ENIT Italy G Riccobaldi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster published by the Italian Tourism Board ENIT for Capri l'isola del Sole / Island of the Sun featuring a colourful view by Giuseppe Riccobaldi (1887-1976) of the cliffs and faraglioni rock...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster United For The Liberation WWII Allied Soldiers Flags
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two military poster - Unis pour la Liberation / United for the Liberation - featuring a dynamic graphic design depicting a stylised image of three Allied s...
Category
British Art Deco Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Italy Breaks Chains That Suffocate Her WWII Soldier
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Italian World War Two poster featuring a dynamic image of a soldier in uniform breaking a chain with the caption in red reading - l'Italia spezza le catene che la so...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Ski Poster Pontresina Resort Switzerland Leupin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport ski poster for the popular resort of Pontresina in Switzerland featuring a fun and colourful illustration by the notable Swiss poster designer Herbert Leupin (1916-1999) of a snowy tree skiing with its head as a bright smiling sun smoking a pipe and wearing a hat and sunglasses against the blue sky background with branches wearing yellow gloves...
Category
Swiss Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Angels with Dirty Faces/Gli Angeli Con La Faccia Sporca
Located in London, GB
Original Italian movie poster for Michael Curtiz's Classic 1938 crime film staring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, the poster is designed by the wonderful Italian artist ...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Original Vintage War Poster Careless Talk Costs Lives Train Fougasse WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster by the notable British cartoonist and illustrator Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird; 1887-1965), one of the posters from the popular Careless Talk Co...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Londres Bruxelles BEA London Brussels
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Londres Bruxelles / London Brussels BEA British European Airways - featuring a stunning modernist design depicting a plane flying through...
Category
Swedish Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Central Kitchens War Food Centrale Keukens Map Chef
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two food propaganda poster - Central Kitchens A nutritious meal for little money / Centrale Keukens Voor weinig geld een voe...
Category
Dutch Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Poster Treasure The Honour Of The Family USSR Propaganda
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Treasure the Honour of the Family! - featuring the quote below artwork showing an elderly man pointing to three photographs on a wall of m...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Sports D
hiver En Suisse Winter Switzerland Swissair Art
By Henri Ott
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Winter sports in Switzerland? Of course, with Swissair / Sports d'hiver en Suisse? Bien entendu, avec la Swissair - featuring colourful artwork by Henri Ott (b.1919) depicting a scenic view of people on a horse drawn sleigh...
Category
Swiss Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Holland Jan Wijga Netherlands Sailboat Windmill
By Jan Wijga
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Holland featuring colourful design by Jan Wijga (1902-1978) depicting a lady wearing the red, white and blue stripes of the flag on her swimsuit di...
Category
Dutch Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original WWII Illustrated Map Poster - Time And Tide Map Of The Atlantic Charter
Located in London, GB
Original vintage illustrated map poster in Spanish by the notable graphic designer, cartographer and artist MacDonald Gill (Leslie MacDonald Gill aka Max Gill; 1884-1947) commissioned by the British Time & Tide magazine (1920-1986) following the World War Two Atlantic Charter agreement between the US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill "for a better future for the world" 14 August 1941 - La Carta del Atlantico. Stunning design featuring detailed colorful pictorial depictions of agriculture and food production, Industrial raw materials and traditional life around the world including images of people, animals, trees, cattle, ships at sea, planes flying overhead and markers with a symbol box listing the locations of metals, wine, crops, petroleum, tobacco, sugar, rubber, silk, coffee, fruit, precious stones etc., surrounded by clouds on the sides and the sun shining down from The Atlantic Charter in the text box at the top with a black and white image below of an Industrial metal worker destroying tanks and machinery and a farming family ploughing a field with horses, the cities, countries, continents and quotes in banners with a seal and a compass point on both sides, all framed within a decorative border. Printed in Great Britain by Philip George & Son Ltd London and published in collaboration with the Time and Tide...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Quiet Stop Needless Noise WWII Soldier
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two warning poster - Quiet! Stop needless noise Noise wastes energy, dissipates manpower, slows war production - featuring a dynamic image of a man in a he...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Drink Poster Amontillado Coquinero Osborne Sherry Map Bull Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster for Amontillado Coquinero Osborne Sherry / Xeres / Jerez Puerto de Santa Maria Espana featuring a great design depicting a bull above a bott...
Category
Spanish Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
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