whose elegant, innovative fashion work soon brought him international renown, as did his sharply focused, bluntly realistic protrait photographs of presidents, writers, and celebrities. Avedon was trained as a photographer in the United States Merchant Marine in World War II. He began his career in fashion photography in 1945 with Harper's Bazaar, switching to Vogue, Life, Graphis and Look magazines. In 1967 he made the famous four portraits of the Beatles for Look, just in the psychedelic period. A retrospective exhibition of his work was mounted in 1978 at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ringo Starr Paul McCartney Georges Harrison John Lennon
The famous four Beatles posters photographed by Richard Avedon for the "Look" Magazine.
We are selling the ORIGINAL AMERICAN FIRST EDITION printed in large size in 1967. This original edition was printed under the licence of the "Nems" The Beatles company and is dated "Copyright 1967" Now they are famous icons of the 60's highly collectible. > Pop music & jazz> BAYLAC Lucien (1855-1909 or 1851-1913)
French Poster designer, end of the XIX century.  We hardly know nothing about the life of this artist, who realised about fourty chromolithographic posters and one watercolored, from 1885 to 1909, for his known work. He worked for 2 towns, Paris and Toulouse, for different printing works and particulary at CHAIX's and KOSSUTH's. Baylac used various styles for his compositions and he sometimes borrowed a lot from Jules CHERET for some of his work, or more radicaly in an other register. His whole oeuvre gives a quite good overview of the vintage advertisement art.
Affichiste français, fin du XIX ème siècle.
on ne sait pratiquement rien sur la vie de cet artiste, qui a réalisé une 40taine d'affiches chromolithographiées ainsi qu'une affiche aquarellée, entre 1885 et 1909. Pour ce qui est connu. il a travaillé pour deux villes Paris et Toulouse, dans diverses imprimeries et particulièrement CHAIX et KOSSUTH. Baylac use de différents styles pour ses compositions, empruntant parfois beaucoup à Jules CHERET pour certaines de ses oeuvres, ou plus radicalement dans un tout autre registre. L'ensemble de son oeuvre permet assez bien de rendre compte de l'art de la réclame de l'epoque.
Biography kindly sent by Lise VIAL > HOFMANN Armin (born in Winterthur in 1920) Swiss avant-garde poster designer and graphic designer of the mid-twentieth century.  After the kunstgewerbeshule in Zürich, he becomes lithographer. In 1948 he begin as poster designer in Basel and become one of the leading figures of the Basel School, one of the most enlightening movement of the Swiss School.
He taught at the Basel School of Design from 1946 to 1986 and with his colleagues, he contributed to the development of the Swiss International Style. Since 1955 he was also teaching in different American Universities. In 1988 he received the Honory Award of design for Industry from the Royal society of Arts in London. Hofmann is well-known for his use of black-and- white images and photo-montage and by a simplification of forms creating an absolutly graphic expression. He created many avant-garde posters, mostly for Art festivals or Art exhibitions. A few of his posters won the Swiss Poster Award, they are now in museum collections and are prized by avant-garde collectors > MOHR Paul  (1890 - ) French Avant-garde poster designer from the Art deco period
Paul Gustave Mohr was born on September 4, 1890 in Ham, France (Somme Dept.). He lived most of his life in Paris, and then settled in Asnieres, France. He attended the Sorbonne, as well as several art schools. During World War I, he was a pilot in the French Army from 1914-1917. Paul Mohr married Jeanne Levy in 1917 and they had three daughters. Helene, Genvieve and Jacqueline.
As an artist, he designed advertising posters from 1920 to 1940. His posters advertised Wonder Bicycles, Lustucru pasta, Banania sugar, Bremsit brakes, Champigneulles beer (Brasserie Champigneulles), L'Union beer (Brasserie Union Messine), as well as shoes and ham. Biography kindly sent by Helene Mohr and Carol Schuler > MÜLLER-BROCKMANN Josef (born in Rapperswil in 1914, leave in Zürich) Swiss avant-garde poster designer and graphic designer of the mid-twentieth century.  After two years of study at the Zürich Art School, he worked as a freelance designer and illustrator from 1936. In 1957 he was founding the "Neue graphik" magazine together with Richard Lohse and Carlo Vivarelli. He thought Graphic Art from 1960 to 1989 at the Zürich Art School and in 1965 he opened the "Galerie Seestrasse" for Constructive and Concrete Art. The "Müller-Brockmann & Co" was founded in 1967, producing many culltural posters. He was also design consultant for IBM. In 1988 he received the Honory Award of design for Industry from the Royal society of Arts in London
During the fifties he moved from illustration to "objective-constructive design" using typography and geometric composition.
He created many avant-garde posters, mostly for classical music concerts or Art exhibitions. He also become famous for his photo-montage posters of Health and security advertising campains. Many of his posters won the Swiss Poster Award, they are now in museum collections and are prized by avant-garde collectors
> NITSCHE Eric (born in Lausanne in 1908) Swiss and American avant-garde poster designer and graphic designer of the mid-twentieth century  After Art schools in Switzerland, France and Germany, he moved to the USA in 1934. He designed 300 record covers and was graphic designer and Art director for different companies and cultural institutions.
In 1955 he become Art director of the General Dynamics. He designed the famous sets « Atom for peace » and « exploring the universe » about scientific and energetic activities of this company. Founded in 1952, this company has different activities in the scientific research, such as atomic energy, electricity, electronic intelligence or space dynamics. They were producing aircraft, boats nuclear power stations, , medical instrument against cancer. They built the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine etc.
These famous three set for the General Dynamics were designed by Eric Nitsche in 1955, 1958 and 1960. Unfortunately the exact date of each poster is not known.
Personally we consider that the set « Atom for peace » is the first one, created in 1955 to promote the pacific use of the atomic energy.
« Exploring the universe » is the second set designed in 1958 to show the research activities of the company.
And the third one about « Energy and industrial subjects » was printed in 1960. Anyway it is not so important, they were all created between 1955 and 1960. They are now in museum collections and are prized by avant-garde collectors. The complete collection is very rare and hard to built. > PÉAN René (1875 - 4 09 1955 Ermont) Rene PeanFrench painter and poster designer form the turn of the century.
Peintre et Affichiste français 1900
René PEAN est né le 1er Juillet 1875, rue de la Huchette, à Paris, 6e arrondissement. Sa famille était originaire de la Sarthe et s'est installée à Paris au début du second Empire. Sa mère était mercière au carrefour de l'Odéon.
Il a été baptisé le 11 Avril 1877 à l'église St Séverin, à Paris.
Elève de l'Ecole des Arts décoratifs à Paris il entre vers 17 ans dans l'atelier Chéret, future «Imprimerie CHAIX», située rue Bergère.
Il a effectué son service militaire dans les régiments territoriaux et le 20 Avril 1918 à Garches il épouse Emilie Marguerite Canod, Ils résident ensemble 4, rue Duhesme, dans le 18 e arrondissement et n'ont pas d'enfant.
L'atelier de R. Péan était situé 80, rue Taitbout dans le 9e arrondissement.
décédé le 4 septembre 1955 il est enterré au cimetière parisien de La Plaine St.Denis.
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Swiss avant-garde poster designer of the end of the XX century.  From 1968 he was teatching Typography in the basel Art and Craft school (Schule für Gestaltung) making conferences and seminars on Typography in Europe and in the US.
Every year the museums of the city of Basel present the new Art acquisitions of the year and ask Wolfgang Weingart to design the poster. The exhibition was called "Kunstkredit" ( credit found for Art acquiisiton).
He creates his own graphic expression in posters and magazine based on photo-montage, computers works and Typography.
A few of his posters won the Swiss Poster Award, they are now in museum collections and are prized by avant-garde collectors. | 
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