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by Cappiello Leonetto
Primary category: Artistic
Related artist: Cappiello Leonetto
- Date: 1929
- Size (cm): 45 x 31
- Size (inches): 18 x 12
- Printer: Evette Germain
- Type: Litho
- Linen Backing: No
- Condition: A-
- Poster ref: ART 316
Price: $ 1100
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Leonetto Cappiello
1875 Livorno, Italy
1942 Cannes, France
Leonetto Cappiello was an Italian poster artist who spent most of his life living and working in Paris. He is considered to be highly innovative. Cappiello was the first to use bold color and bold images which appear to pop from dark backgrounds. This is very unlike the earlier Maitres de l’Affiche which were delicately drawn and colored.
Cappiello had no formal artistic training. He began his career as a cartoonist and caricaturist. As a young man, he moved to Paris and his work was published in the magazine, Le Rire. Cappiello’s first advertising poster was for the newspaper, Frou-Frou in 1899.
During World War I, he worked for his country of origin as an interpreter, but returned to Paris and devoted the rest of his life to poster design. Cappiello created over 530 posters. Among his best known posters are those for Mossant, Maurin Quina, Le Nils, Veuve Amiot, and Cognac Albert Robin.
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