Stunning Large French Poster by Jean-Gabriel Domerque

Fantastic original 1950s Monte Carlo Travel Advertising poster featuring a stunning design by French artist Jean Gabriel Domergue This original vintage poster has been professionall...

Original, midcentury poster dated 1975 from Gallerie Lovreglio in Nice, France. Signed by the artist Jean Messagier (1920-1999), multi-faceted artist. Measures: 17" W × 1" D × 24" H "Like the meanders of the Doubs so dear to Jean Messagier, the furrows that the artists on the paths of art history are sometimes complex and tortuous. Messagier, famous since the 1950s, exhibited all over the world, a friend of painters, rockstars and poets, began the 1980s with a retrospective exhibition at the Grand Palace (Paris) which then marks, paradoxically, the beginning of a certain forgetfulness. The reasons are many times that today the work of this immense artist is partly forgotten, in all unknown cases, and is probably the object of a misunderstanding. Messagier, abstract? Arise then these images of colorful tracery, this so-called "tile washer" painting, which was, he, is true, that of her first successes and her consecration, but which is only one of facets of a gigantic and protean work that has endlessly put itself in danger and to reinvent herself. The object of the retrospective imagined at the Musée de Dole in 2019 is clearly to show that Messagier was working beyond the issues of figuration and of abstraction, in an urgency to paint, to draw, to create, which has as principal obsession to respond to the cruel creativity of nature. Messagier, springtime specialist, ecologist almost before the hour, experimenter of frost painting winter, poet of the sap and pollen, draws his breath in that, vital, libidinal of nature. It's the same energy that pushed him to touch everything, with a freedom and a lack of interest manifest for opinion or criticism. It does not matter if we say crazy - on the contrary - Messagier the almost American abstract painter never finished with the figure or the figuration and allowed herself as early as the 1970s to both summon images from the popular culture like Goldorak, the Marsupilami, Betty Boop, glamorous figures like Lady Di or Greta Garbo, to jostle her masters by quoting Delacroix, Matisse, Picasso ... with total irreverence. These years 1970-1980, where will face jovial triviality, fried eggs, radishes, a thousand giant leafs...

This original 1931 lithograph poster depicts Stella Dargis, a French actress know for the films La Merveilleuse Journée (1929) and Le Juif Errant (1926). The actress peeks coyly from...

We adore this, incredibly rare, original French Poster for Barbarella featuring a fabulous design of the iconic comic book character by Jean-Claude Forest. Printed by Psychophot in 1...

Great first-year-of-release French Moyenne film poster for Rat Pack classic Ocean's 11 (L'inconnu de las Vegas). A very rare poster in fantastic condition featuring a great design by...

Mid-20th century original vintage French poster, 'Lyvia Holos' by Jean Colin A charming poster from the Art Deco period Artist Paul Colin Year 1935 Dimensions 125 x 1...

Vintage 1950s framed poster for the 'Loterie Nationale', nouveaux francs, design by Jean Effel, published by Le Belier, dated December 1959, Paris, France. In reasonable vintage con...

This circa 1926 travel advertising poster for Valençay was created by French artist Charles-Jean Hallo (1882–1969), a prolific painter, illustrator, and poster designer celebrated fo...

Beautiful original Cote Basque French Travel poster from 1952 designed by Jean Garcia. Created for French railways SNCF this poster was part of the post war effort to stimulate touri...

This poster was created for the French National Railways, SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français). Created by artist Jean Garcia this vintage railway travel poster promo...