BUDAPEST.- Budapest Poster Gallery’s current poster auction has already begun on March 7, 2016 and the lots are open for online bidding. The timed online auction contains 134 vintage posters, including 75 movie posters created for American and European masterpieces of the 20th century film history.
Bids are accepted until April 3 (Sunday), 2016, 20:00 CET (11:00 AM PDT).
Among the 134 original vintage posters, besides the 75 movie posters, rare commercial, propaganda, circus, theatre and exhibition pieces will be auctioned. The quality of the selection is further enhanced by more than 20 unique works from the pre-war period, before 1945.
The majority of the auctioned lots are movie posters which were designed for a variety of western, musical, science fiction, comedy, animation films as well as movies dealing with the First or the Second World War .Most of these posters are first release pieces. The selection contains designs for such remarkable movies asClose Encounters of the Third Kind (lot 4),The Wizard of Oz, Apocalypse Now (lot 17), Fistful of Dollars, Alphaville (lot 3), The Long Goodbye (lot 50)and Cabaret (lot 5 & lot 6). Two different designs were made for Cabaret and now both of them are offered for sale on the auction. Each and every lot is an outstanding example of the rich and diverse Hungarian poster art of the 1960s, 70s and 80s: The Sicilian Checkmate (lot 36), Zeppelin (lot 7), Southern Star (lot 47), Separate Tables (lot 58), Conrack (lot 67),Sex and the Single Girl (lot 56) or Modesty Blaise (lot 44)- all reflect the style cavalcade of the era.
It is worth mentioning the exquisite Lajos Kassák design for his own exhibition (Kassák, Picture Architecture - lot 76) which was his very last poster made in his lifetime. Among the commercial posters such cult pieces are available as the pop art masterpiece by György Kemény’s Umbrella dresses you up (lot 96) which was allegedly banned by the censorship at the beginning of the 1970s. The fans of geometric style now will have a chance to purchase Nándor Szilvásy’s outstanding mid-century modern work, Decorate your home (lot 87) .The charming poster advertising chocolate by Ilona Müller (Milk chocolate is my favourite-lot 92),the decorative post-war propaganda poster by Ilona Fischer (Election 1971 - lot 106) or a great example of the socialist-realist style (Learn, do sports for our Socialist future - lot 110) all contribute to the diversity of the auctioned pieces.
The auction offers numerous posters from the pre-war period. Besides the propaganda pieces, such rarities as the spectacular Art Nouveau advertisement from 1911 designed for the Zoo and Aquarium (lot 132), the impressive Art Deco poster forSzerencsi Bonbons (lot 113), András Biczó’s work from 1941 to promote the Pannónia Brewery P.L. at Pécs (lot 115) or the famous travel poster, Hungary (lot 124), by Antal Fery and György Konecsni.
