Original Art & Exhibition Posters
Art and exhibition posters by legendary artists such as David Hockney, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol occupy a fascinating and highly coveted niche in the world of fine art collecting. Unlike original paintings or sculptures, these posters were typically produced in limited runs to promote specific gallery shows, museum retrospectives, or cultural events often printed in editions of just a few hundred copies.
Additionally, the artists themselves were often directly involved in the design process — Picasso contributed original lithographic compositions, Warhol brought his signature screen-printing aesthetic, and Hockney lent his vivid, painterly sensibility — elevating these works far beyond ordinary advertising material and into the realm of original art.
At the heart of this world was the legendary Mourlot Imprimerie, founded by Fernand Mourlot in 1852, which became the premier lithographic workshop in Europe and worked closely with virtually every major artist of the twentieth century — from Picasso and Matisse to Braque and Miró. Mourlot’s master craftsmen possessed an extraordinary ability to translate an artist’s vision directly onto stone, and the posters they produced for exhibitions at iconic Parisian venues such as the Galerie Maeght, the Galerie Louise Leiris, and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs were printed in strictly limited numbers, intended primarily for display in the streets and galleries of Paris rather than for posterity.
As awareness of the artistic and historical significance of original art and exhibition posters has grown among collectors and institutions, demand has dramatically outpaced supply, cementing their status as rare and desirable objects that command serious attention at auction and in specialist galleries worldwide. View our enire range of orignal art posters here