Vintage Leonetto Cappiello Absinthe ad Postcard

Completely retouched (this is probably the only copy you will find that hasn't got big creases (folds) in the middle. Original size was 110 x 150 cm (c. 43.3 x 59 inch) Poster showing a man and woman at a cafe, he smiles and watches as she tastes his drink. Belle époque, between 1905 and 1910. Leonetto Cappiello is known as the Father of the Modern Advertising Poster. Combining Cheret's joyful exuberance, Toulouse-Lautrec's technique of simplified lines and flat colours and his own background as a caricaturist, he had an original approach to using posters as eye-catching advertising tools. As a result, his posters are still among the world's most popular. Today, more homes are decorated with Cappiello's posters than any other single poster artist in the world.