Django Poster

Fopa

From what I've read, the picture that is on the cover of Michael Dregni's
great book on the life of Django, was originally a large poster , put out by Deca, and "plastered all over Paris" in the 40's

https://shoppingcart.djangobooks.com/it ... regni.html


I would very much like to find and buy one of these original old posters. does anyone have any idea where one could be found? There must be some old vintage poster stores in Paris. Maybe one of our French board members has an idea.

Elliot

I'd be looking through Sotheby's for something like that. Say $2000 minimum.

sockeye

Fopa,

Years ago there was a shop in San Francisco that specialized in vintage French posters. I wish I could remember more. I want to say it was in Pacific Heights or the Marina -- somewhere around there. May be long gone.

You might try these places:

http://www.parisposters.com/index.php
http://www.gal-123.com/en/home.html




I'll warn you though, vintage well-designed French affiches are very collectible and fetch top dollar, even when they don't feature Django!

Good luck!

John

Fopa

Sarah Stocking on Jackson St. in the City is the main vintage poster store, she carries things like Latrec and Cheret, but she had no idea where I could find the Django poster.

Elliot

Also, please keep in mind that in the art/poster world, terms like 'vintage' and 'original' often mean nothing. Only a poster of which the plate has been struck after the first production run can truly claim to be original or vintage in the way that you or I would assume it to mean. What you usually see are photo repros and not done by artisans from the original lithoplate, provided it still exists. But since it has been over 50 years, if you could get a source photo you could have one printed for yourself at a shop that specializes in these sorts of things, trade show posters and the like.

Fopa

Thanks. I'm an art dealer in San Francisco, so I've got a good idea of how hard it will be to find one of the original posters,... and a fairly good idea of how expensive it might be if I get lucky and actually find one

stoche

Hope you have a big wallet...!

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... &rd=1&rd=1

Bye
stoche

Fopa

Thanks for the link.....and if I'm reading it right, the auction doesn't finish till june. I fiqured on paying about $2000, but it looks like this one will end up much higher, and it's in pretty shity condition as well.

dennis

it says the auction ended on jan . 26th... but it wasn't sold.. u should email him about it and offer a price

harlemjoys

Someone should reproduce it and sell it.

it's a great piece of artwork featuring a great artist.

max

Actually, somebody did..

I have one in my studio hangin on the wall, about 50 centimeters high, framed and glassed.

my friend who did the print did a bigger one for his workshop about two meters high, it´s beautiful! I reckon he could sell one in any size one needs
if its not against any law? Still for those of you living in USA, you would be better of just going to a good "printshop" and have it done, as we live in sweden, and the dollar to krona exchange rate is not in your favor.

I also got one of Carolyn Ridsdales "collagepieces" as used on cover for the robin nolan book series, the red one, in a big print, a gift from Paul Meader
a few years ago, looks stunnning!

And speaking of it, i had a local artist to paint two canvases to me,
one Django and one Frank Zappa, also beautiful and a pretty cheap way
of getting a personal painting that really means something to me.
Could be seen in this link - http://www.swingclub.nu/gitane.html picture on the bottom of the page. I´ve just asked her to do one of Nina Hagen as well!

link to the clever girl who made them http://www.byhue.se/