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VERMOUTH MARTINI (2nd edition)
Artist: Leonetto Cappiello
Year: 1960
Size: 100 x 70 cm / 39.4 x 27.6″
About this poster
The Italian-born artist Leonetto Cappiello had a very creative mind. This poster for Vermouth Martini shows a youth descending from a bright beam of light, almost like Apollo, carrying two bottles of vermouth. The original poster was designed at the beginning of the 20th century for the Italian Martini vermouth, one of the many brands distilled by the MARTINI & ROSSI company founded in Turin in 1863. This is the later print from the 1960s.
Artist: Leonetto Cappiello
Leonetto Cappiello was born in 1875 in Livorno, Italy and died in 1942 in Cannes, France. In 1898 he moved to Paris and became known through his caricatures of famous artists of the time, such as Yvette Guilbert. Around 1900 he started designing posters and soon became the most famous poster designer of his generation in France, following in the footsteps of Chéret and Toulouse-Lautrec. His large-format colour li... more
Leonetto Cappiello was born in 1875 in Livorno, Italy and died in 1942 in Cannes, France. In 1898 he moved to Paris and became known through his caricatures ...
Poster details
- Poster No.: 1259
- Artist:
- Company: Martini & Rossi, Torino
- Brand:MARTINI & ROSSI, Italia
- Printer: Tipografia Teatrale Torinese, Torino
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- Size: 100 x 70 cm / 39.4 x 27.6″
- Printing technique:Lithograph in coulours, Reprint
- Condition:
A/J
Excellent condition. Picture preserved completely. Wrinkles and small tears, if any, restricted to edges. Mounted on acid-free Japanese vellum. - Category:
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- Publications:Drink Posters
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