Leonetto Cappiello - Le GOLF de FONT-ROMEU - Chemins de Fer du Midi - 1980s

Artist: Leonetto Cappiello Title: Le GOLF de FONT-ROMEU - Chemins de Fer du Midi Year: anni ‘80 Dimensions: 79,5 x 49,5 cm Publisher: Ets. St.Martin 92 Asnieres RC Paris 64 209 56748 Origin: France Signature in the artist's plate located at the bottom right: L Cappiello Original advertising poster printed in offset lithography Leonetto Cappiello (Livorno, 1875 – Cannes, 1942) was an Italian advertising artist, illustrator, painter and caricaturist naturalized French. Poster printed in the 1980s This beautiful poster was created in its first edition in 1929 by Leonetto Cappiello, the great master and interpreter of French billboard advertising. The advertising poster promotes the Saint-Romeu golf course, located in the French Eastern Pyrenees and advertised by the Chemins de Fer du Midi railway company. The poster was produced for the French government, for the railway journeys of the Chemins de Fer that started from the Midi station in Paris, France The scene is dynamic and elegant with a golfer in the foreground making a swing and set in a very pleasant mountainous landscape. Cappiello emphasizes in this work his refined graphic style and the ability to promote rail tourism in a charming way. The elegant Art Deco style emerges and combines with the appreciation of preciousness. An example of a tourism-sporting union for travel lovers and golf enthusiasts. This work is one of the few Cappiello posters featuring golf. The poster has excellent freshness and vibrancy of colors and images and the charm of the 1929 design era, the time when it was conceived and created by the artist. The vintage design and the cross-hatched paper give it an even more interesting and real lived experience. Therefore this work preserves and transmits a strongly and authentically vintage look. Dimensions: 79,5 x 49,5 cm This poster is in good condition - A (excellent - small imperfections) The poster will be carefully rolled in protective paper and placed in a sturdy cardboard tube and will be shipped with UPS or another express courier.

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