SIZE:

68 x 47 inches (173 x 120 cm)

REFERENCE NUMBER:

3986

ARTIST:

Villemot

YEAR:

1974

SIZE:

68 1/2 x 45 1/2 inches (174 x 115 1/2 cm)

REFERENCE NUMBER:

3791

YEAR:

1960s

SIZE:

76 1/2 x 54 1/2 inches (195 x 134 1/2 cm)

REFERENCE NUMBER:

3673

Orson Welles created a cinematic masterpiece in 1941 with this incredible tour de force in film making. Innovations in cinematography, lighting, design, acting, directing, and more, abound. Despite the attempted suppression of its release by William Randolph Hearst, and its initial low box office return, Citizen Kane has gone on to be called the “greatest American film ever made.” This Italian 4-foglio has magnificent art of Welles as Charles Foster Kane at a political rally.

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ARTIST:

Bucan

YEAR:

1981

SIZE:

53 x 77 inches (136 x 195 cm)

REFERENCE NUMBER:

3588

ARTIST:

Dudovich

YEAR:

ca. 1905

SIZE:

82 x 56 1/2 inches (209 x 144 cm)

REFERENCE NUMBER:

3610

Dudovich was one of the most prolific and important of the Italian poster artists. He designed more than six hundred posters in a career that spanned more than half a century. This poster for a liqueur marks Dudovich’s triumphant return to Ricordi after his six-year stint at Chappuis. It is not only one of his masterpieces, but a masterpiece of Italian poster art itself. Using light in a staggeringly effective manner against flat tones and half-tones, he depicts a voluptuous woman leaning over to smell the aroma emanating from a small glass of liqueur. The manner in which the light effusing from the glass spreads all over the table and her body is handled in an exceptionally sensual manner. Her generous decolleté helps turn this simplest of gestures into an unforgettable, monumental act. Weill p. 88, Ricordi 183, Dudovich 170, Manifesto 400.

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