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Greg Yaneff's recommended sites:
(Please Contact me with your suggested links or if any links don't work)

To Buy Poster Reproductions (by Artist)
Mucha The Father of Art Nouveau.
Roger Broders Art Deco Travel posters 1920's.
Cappiello The master's most famous images.
Cassandre The genius of Modern Design.
Paul Colin The finest of Art Deco, with Josephine Baker.
Toulouse Lautrec The most famous of them all.

Informative Websites: Turn of the Century - 1950
Mucha Museum, Prague The world's first Mucha Museum, dedicated to the life and work of Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) housed in Prague, Czech.
The Posters of Toulouse-Lautrec San Diego Museum of Art. Fantastic.
WetCanvas Virtual Museum
Great exhibits including Poster history, Maitre history, the Entertainers (Jane Avril, Sarah Bernhardt...) Artists Jules Cheret, Jules Alexandre Grun and more.
Absinthe, La Fee Verte (the Green Fairy) The best site I have found for all
things Absinthe, highly informative and insightful.
Posters American Style Smithsonian American Art Museum. Very informative.
Produce for Victory Posters on the American Homefront 1941 - 1945.
National Museum of American History & Smithsonian Institution. Good images.

1950 - present
PICASSO A fun, colourful and extremely visual site on Picasso's life and works.
Fernand Mourlot Lithographe  A fascinating look at the famed printer responsible
for producing the posters of the masters Picasso, Matisse, Chagall and others.
Contemporary Posters Excellent selection of CYRK Polish posters for sale.

Dealer of Japanese Woodblock Prints
(The inspiration that lead to the birth of colour lithography in France)
Stuart Jackson Gallery Knowledgeable and honest source for Fine
antique Japanese Prints (Ukiyo-e), that I highly recommend.

Dealer of Antique Prints
Meyer Antique Prints - They specialize in Original antique prints, antique drawings, renaissance miniatures, lithographs from Chagall, Picasso…

Selected Vintage Poster Auctions
Posters Auctions International May and November poster sales in New York
Swann Auction Galleries Four or more poster sales a year in New York
Poster Connections Inc Two poster sales a year in San Francisco
Christies Three Poster sales a year in London
Van Sabben Auctions Two poster sales a year in the Netherland
Frederic Lozada Auctions Poster auctions in France

Poster Conservation
M&W Graphics Linen-backers & restorers of vintage posters since 1995. (New York)
Poster Conservation Finest quality linen backing and conservation restoration (Stamford, Connecticut)

Greg Yaneff's recommended Poster Books & Movies:


The Complete Masters of the Poster All 256 Colour posters.
The must have book for the serious collector of Maitre de L'Affiche posters.

The Poster in History by Max Gallo. An excellent, well illustrated overview of posters.
American Art Posters of the 1890s by Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A wonderful look at the American poster.
Absinthe, History in a Bottle by Barnaby Conrad III, A fascinating, illustrated exploration of Absinthe's legendary allure. The main book on "The Green Fairy"

Poster Artists:
The Beggarstaff Posters by Colin Campbell. The best book on Beggarstaff.
Posters of Jules Cheret. Catalogue Raisonne
by Lucy Boido. Revised 2nd edition. Cheret's complete works, serious reference.
Arthur Wesley Dow
by Nancy E. Green and Jessie Poesch. Explores the full range of Dow's brilliant artistry, including painting, photography, and printmaking.
Lautrec by Lautrec by Husiman & Dortu. The definitive book on the life and works of Toulouse-Lautrec with the best photos I've seen of his life. My favourite of the scores of books on him, at an affordable price.
Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau by Victor Arwas.
The definitive book on the life and works of Mucha.
Picasso: The Art of the Poster. Catalogue Raisonne by Marc Gundel, Rene Hirner
One of the few Picasso books to focus primarily on his poster work.
DVD
Moulin Rouge (original 1952 version)
Starring: José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Director: John Huston
Format: VHS only Rated: PG13 Studio: MGM/UA Studios.
A wonderful look at the life and work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Great visuals with posters.

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