Blue Moon Silk Stockings Vintage Advertisement
Blue Moon Silk Stockings, 1920s US vintage advertisement, featuring a beautiful blonde, sitting on a crescent moon. The painting is an interpretation of the masterpiece by Gustav Tenggren.
Alphonse Mucha Flirt Biscuits Lefevre-Utile (1895)
Art Nouveau vintage advertising poster. “Flirt” was one of the brands of biscuits made by Lefevre-Utile, who gave Mucha a number of commissions over the years. Mucha was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs. The painting features a beautiful woman in a flowing robe, flirting with a handsome man with a moustache, both surrounded by lush flowers and leaves. A romantic vintage Art Nouveau illustration.
Art by Alphonse Mucha
Movement: Art Nouveau / Art Deco / Jugendstil
Floral Vintage Fine Art
Paul Berthon Salon Des Cent
French Art Nouveau Poster (1895)
Salon des Cent (“Salon of the One Hundred”) was a commercial art exhibition in Paris, based at 31 Rue Bonaparte. The Salon sold color posters, prints and reproductions of artwork to the general public at reasonable prices. The salon held exhibitions until 1900. Many of the posters advertising Salon des Cent exhibitions have themselves become collectors’ items.
Paul Emile Berthon was a French artist who produced primarily posters and lithographs.Berthon’s work is in the style of Art Nouveau, much like his contemporary Alphonse Mucha. Berthon studied as a painter in Villefranche before moving to Paris.
Theophile Alexandre Steinlen – Le Chat Noir (1896)
Le Chat Noir was a nineteenth-century entertainment establishment, in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. Theophile Steinlen’s 1896 Art Nouveau poster is an advertisement for a tour to other cities of the Le Chat Noir’s troupe of cabaret entertainers. Theophile Alexandre Steinlen was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker who moved to Paris’ bohemian Montmartre section in 1883 and was friends with Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Aristide Bruant and Adolphe Willette. His permanent home, Montmartre and its environs, was a favorite subject throughout Steinlen’s life and he often painted scenes of some of the harsher aspects of life in the area. In addition to paintings and drawings, he also did sculpture on a limited basis, most notably figures of cats that he had great affection for as seen in many of his paintings.
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