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Texas Cigarettes
Artist: Georges Froidevaux
Year: 1949
Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
Price:
CHF450
About this poster
Many a cigarette brand was created before and during the Second World War because of the shortage of imported tobacco in Switzerland. This cigarette brand was produced at the Manufacture de Cigarettes Cortaillod and was sold and smoked mainly in western Switzerland. Like many Swiss cigarette brands, “Texas” no longer exists. The creator, Georges Froidevaux, was a painter and designed very few posters.
Artist: Georges Froidevaux
Georges Froidevaux spent the last 20 years of his life in Le-Bas-Monsieur near La-Chaux-de-Fonds, where he died in 1968. He was a painter and graphic designer, was married to a Spanish woman and had five children. He created a lot of abstract paintings and even some graffiti, one of which can be seen at the former “Manufacture de Cigarettes Cortaillod” (which today belongs to Philip Morris). Froidevaux also cr... more
Georges Froidevaux spent the last 20 years of his life in Le-Bas-Monsieur near La-Chaux-de-Fonds, where he died in 1968. He was a painter and graphic designe ...
Poster details
- Poster No.: 2555
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- Company: Manufacture de Cigarettes SA Cortaillod
- Printer: Paul Attinger SA, Neuenburg, CH
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- Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
- Printing technique:Lithograph in colours
- Condition:
A-
Very good condition. Picture preserved completely. Wrinkles and small tears, if any, restricted to edges. - Category:
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- Publications:50 Jahre Schweizer Plakate, ausgezeichnet vom Eidg. Dep. des Innern - 50 years Swiss Posters selected by the Federal Department of Home Affairs
Schweizer Plakatkunst - Swiss Poster Art - Die besten Plakate der Jahre 1941-1965 - Price:
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