Rare Posters Father’s Day Sale.
May 30, 2008
Father’s Day Sale.
Buy ONE for DAD and get one free for yourself!!
Our Father’s Day 2008 gift certificate promotion lets you spend as much or as little as you like our website, and get a free gift certificate of equal value. Shop online here until June 15th, 2008, and choose from over 3000 great pieces of art for Dad. The gift certificates may be used for specially marked items with the 
image on them.
How it works
There is no minimum purchase, however the gift certificate applies to final order total of applicable items up until $500.00, and items can also be purchased directly by telephone, Toll Free at 800-378-8899(USA and Canada) or 718-788-0791(International).
Shop and check out as normal, and the certificates will be emailed to you. When you make a purchase using a Gift Certificate, simply enter the coupon code sent to you during your checkout to redeem your award. It’s that simple!
What’s more, the value of the gift certificate can also carry over to future purchases if you want to use it for something of lesser value then you got Dad.
Enjoy our website, only items marked with the special Fathers’s Day sale image are eligible for the free gift certificate of equal value.Take advantage of this very special sale for this very special day.
If you need assistance, or have any questions about an item, email us at diminomichael@rareposters.com or contact us using the phone numbers above
Art Deco-Style Artist Tamara de Lempicka
May 27, 2008
Lempicka is best known for her Art Deco-styled portraits. Sexy, bedroom-eyed women in stylish dress are rendered in haunting poses. Perhaps it was her own dramatic life mirrored in her art. Married twice to wealthy, she moved from her native Poland to Russia, and then to Paris. In 1918, she studied painting at the Academe de la Grand Chaumiere, and was privately tutored by Maurice Denis. In 1925 she exhibited her works at the first Art Deco show in Paris. She moved to America in 1939 with her second husband, Baron Raoul Kuffner. Her works appeared exclusively at many galleries and museums, but her artistic output decreased. In 1960 she changed her style to abstract art and began creating works with a spatula. After her husband died in 1962 she ceased painting and moved to Mexico.
Tamara received her first painting lessons from Maurice Denis at the Academe Ranson. Maurice Denis was the painter who caused such a stir in his day with a statement that both impressed itself on his pupils and brought him lasting celebrity: It must be remembered that a painting is essentially not so much a war-horse, a naked woman or some story or other, as a plain surface covered with paint in a particular arrangement.
In spite of this “modem” position, Maurice Denis remained a purely decorative painter his whole life long; his style was archaic, post-symbolist, even when he was trying to “renew” his subject, something he believed he was doing, for example, by substituting, in his painting Les Muses, visibly bourgeois figures, strolling in the Bois de Boulogne, for the deities of ancient Greece customary in the genre until then. At this period even someone like Eugene Pougheon would not shrink from placing “Venuses” and “Pegasuses” in the surroundings of the Jockey Club, while his rival Emile Aubry managed to seat a rococo Liberty vamp astride the back of a centaur. Even so, Maurice Denis was a hard taskmaster and a methodical teacher; the patient apprenticeship which Tamara absolved under his eye enabled her later to create immaculately structured pictures.
Her definitive stamp, however, Tamara received from the instruction she went on to receive from Andre Lhote: painter, decorator, critic, art-teacher, theoretician – activities which he himself found difficulty in reconciling, and which often enough prevented him from realizing the subtle syntheses of his inspiration. Andre Lhote was the inventor of a revised and corrected cubism, a “safe” cubism using “bourgeois” colours, a so-called synthetic cubism which Tamara took up immediately. In other words, it was a question of reconciling the iconography of the Salons (or, shall we say, of the academicians and other hacks) with avant-garde cubist experiments of Braque, Juan Gris, or Picasso. In short, to place a variety of cubism (one had to move with the times, after all) at the service of the bourgeoisie, albeit an attenuated cubism, acceptable on the walls of a respectable household, and unlikely to frighten away the visitors. On the one hand, Lhote was of the opinion that what the impressionists had built up on pure colour must now be transferred to the level of form-n. On the other hand, the only thing that interested him about cubism was its rational, constructive aspect, which, in his opinion, allowed the phenomena of the natural world to be preserved in a painting, and the forms of objects to be left intact, a human body, for example, being an object like any other. This was what he called the “plastic metaphor”, a metaphor which Tamara used time and again in her artistic output: in her harems populated by provocative idiots; in her nudes, which are also allegories of lasciviousness; or in her portraits characterized by the haughty expression typical of a certain caste. Of course the negative side of this procedure is that cases left with nothing more than the most superficial aspects of cubism as originally conceived. There is a penalty to be paid when one reduces the figures to the lowest common colour denominator just in order to satisfy the requirements of plasticity. This is to confuse academism with simplification of the picture. One could say that Andr6 Lhote confused cubism with geometrism without realizing that cubism implies a total questioning of the pictorial system created by the Renaissance.
Artist Spotlight Joan Miro, The Most Surreal Of All
May 27, 2008
The surreal stylings of Spanish painter Joan Miró are at the center of this this month’s Artist Spotlight. A contemporary of Pablo Picasso, Miró was as imaginative as he was prolific, producing thousands of whimsical and colorful works throughout his life. Our inventory showcases approximately 130 pieces of the the work of pioneer European Joan Miro, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth-century.
Joan Miro was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona. At the age of 14, he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La Lonja’s Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales y Bellas Artes in the same city. Upon completing three years of art studies, he took a position as a clerk. After suffering a nervous breakdown, he abandoned business and resumed his art studies, attending Francesc Galí’s Escola d’Art in Barcelona from 1912 to 1915. Miró received early encouragement from the dealer José Dalmau, who gave him his first solo show at his gallery in Barcelona in 1918. In 1917 he met Francis Picabia.
rareposters.com Joan Miro Collection
He attended drawing sessions of the Sant Lluch Circle, where the architect Gaudi had been a student. In 1916 he visited an exhibition of French art organized by Vollard in Barcelona. During this time Miro met many influential figures of the art world, such as F. Picabia, the founder of the Dada review “391,” Marie Laurencin, and Max Jacob. He had his first exhibition in 1918 at the Gallery Dalmau, and in the same year became a member of the Agrupacio Courbet, a group of young painters around Artigas. He painted “detailist” landscapes at this time. Then in 1919 Miro took his first visit to Paris, where he met and became friends with Picasso. He spent the subsequent winters in Paris, returning to Montroig with his family for the summer. At the end of 1920 he took a studio at 45 rue Blomet in Paris.
His first Paris exhibition in 1921, organized by Dalmau at the Galerie La Licorne was a complete failure. Until his next exhibition in 1923 Miro established a close relationship with the neighboring artists surrounding his studio in Paris; and with Henry Miller and Hemingway. Then in 1924 he joined Andre Breton Louis Aragon, and Paul Eluard in the Surrealist group, and in 1925 took part in the Surrealist exhibition at Galerie Pierre. During the years that followed he lived next to and worked closely with Max, Ernst, Magritte, Eluard, and Arp, he was married in 1930 to Pilar Juncosa on October 12th, and continued exhibiting with the Surrealists from New York to London.
After the outbreak of war in Spain in 1936 he left, not to return for four years. He had 22 works included in the International Surrealist exhibition in the same year, at the New Burlington Galleries in London. In 1940 while beginning his Constellations series finished the next year, Miro returned to Paris in the face of the advancing German army. He returned to Spain that same year. In 1942 Miro returned to live in Barcelona, he begins to work with ceramics in collaboration with Artigas. He makes his first visit to the United States in 1947, and returns to Paris the next year where he produced numerous engravings and lithographs.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Rare Posters Inc, one of New York’s premier antiques and fine art providers, announces its Spring Modern and Contemporary Art Auction, being on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008. Up for auction are over 500 works on paper – prints, posters, drawings, and books –by well-known contemporary artists. Whether you are a new collector or an established one, there’s something here for everyone. The works will be on view from May 1 to May 21 at an “Auction Preview” at Universal Collectibles Live Auction Website, online at http://live.universal-collectibles.com/p_ds/?d=event&eid=506&ssn=1096584135 (Look for the rareposters.com logo.) Early bids will be accepted throughout the preview period.
“This event is an incredible opportunity to acquire the works of the world’s premier artists of the 20th century,” said Bernard Roguerie, President and founder of Rare Posters, Inc. “We are blessed to be associated with both and this occasion should not be missed.”
Some of the artists include: Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein, Henri Matisse, Benton Spruance, Toulouse Lautrec, Jean Dubuffet, Auguste Renoir, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Miro, Claes Oldenburg, Saul Steinberg, Keith Haring, Jacob Lawrence, Emily Eveleth, David Hockney , Bernard Buffet, Fernando Botero, and A.M. Cassandre.
Headlining the fine art category is a Framed Limited Edition Signed by Roy Lichtenstein (Est. $32000 – $40000). Collectors covet Lichtenstein’s meticulous and remarkably accurate depictions of popular advertising, and he is considered among the foremost artists of the 20th Century. Lichtenstein’s work as well as contemporaries such as Warhol holds relevance today and many of the messages portrayed can be directly linked to modern day life.
“It’s a pleasure to be able to offer such rare and beautiful art” comments Rougerie. “We are always looking for items to feature in our auctions.”
Opening bids range from $50 to $25,000 — with many opening bids at a fraction of retail gallery prices. It’s easy to participate. Simply click on the Sign Up link at, live.universal-collectibles.com/p_ds/Default.aspx?d=event&eid=506&ssn=1096584135 to register. Anyone who places an absentee bid will be notified via email if they have been outbid.
Since 1990, Rare Posters, Inc. has been distributing hard to find posters, prints, and accessories for their customers worldwide. Rare Posters, Inc. is a niche company, and its strength is in providing an impressive selection of lithographs, limited editions prints, signed items, and high quality serigraphs to those interested in something more than a poster, but less expensive than a painting. By partnering with seasoned art dealers, publishers, and printers throughout the world, Rare Posters is able to provide you with the purchasing power to acquire any one of over 800 highly collected artists. At www.rareposters.com, you will find over 5,000 exclusive items featuring artists such as Basquiat, Rauschenberg, Christo, Warhol, Matisse, Botero, Lichtenstein, and Miro as well as many items hard to find anywhere else.
In addition to the e-commerce portion of www.rareposters.com, the site also links to corporate information and company background, as well as external sites for the Art Wise Wholesale Art Service and the Rare Prints Online Fine Art Service. Items can be ordered directly online, or by calling toll free 800-378-8899(USA and Canada) or 718-788-0791 (International).
To find out more contact: Michael Dimino – Head of Internet Sales
Rare Posters, Inc
135 Plymouth Street, Unit 412
High Brooklyn, New York 11201
Email: diminomichael@rareposters.com
Tel: 718-788-0791
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Rare Posters Lauches New Weblog
May 15, 2008
Brooklyn, New York . May 1st 2008: Early yesterday Rare Posters, Inc, launched a new Weblog. The Rare Posters’ weblog is a channel for tapping into the company, news,ideas and trends that make up Rare Posters active global community. Posts by staff, customers and others will be there to in support of the arts. The weblog is an open forum for discussion, welcoming your ideas, thoughts and comments on a wide range of art related themes and issues.
To kick off our new blog, Michael Dimino, director director of strategic communications, will be posting a series of articles to bring readers right up to speed on whats happening with the company. Moving forward Rare Posters feels that the Weblog will be an invaluable communication and collaboration tool for them to reach out to their expanding customer base. Everyone is invited you to check in, read Rare Posters blog entries, view images/videos, share ideas, contribute comments, and bookmark the site to return often.
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Where can you find first-quality home and office décor, hand-selected by experienced collectors? Where can you find ethnic and exotic items to display in your home that have been imported from all over the world? Where can you find all this merchandise, in one place, at outlet prices? Rare posters is the only Art outlet where you can find top-quality treasures from around the world.
“We were amazed at what was available. The quality is unbeatable and prices are affordable,” said Rougerie.
He currently works with many different companies to provide a variety of items.
The concept of the outlet is different than any other online store.
“We only purchase quality merchandise,” Rougerie stressed.
“At Rareposters.com you get a designer look at an outlet price,” noted Rougerie.
The store features distinctive exhibition posters, prints, collectibles, wall art, signed limited edition art and other accessories. A variety of artists, subjects, styles, and mediums are also displayed. Customers can adorn their homes with French and Italian etchings, Lithographs from various places throughout the world, European and American art.
rareposters.com specializes in difficult-to-find ethnic treasures from around the globe. “It helps that we pick the merchandise ourselves and are able to look at it with a designer’s eye,” Rougerie emphasized. “Most of the items are one-of-a-kind,” he added.
Most of the items are sold at below retail gallery prices. The shop does also provide a few new value-priced items. This promises that customers get fabulous deals on quality items.
“We have a hard time keeping the shop full because items turn over so quickly,” Rougerie commented.
New shipments arrive almost daily, which guarantees that every visit to the online store will be a new experience.
“We are going to evolve with the seasons,” Rougerie said. “We plan to have quality items year-round.”
This spring, the store has added to its large selection…
Shoppers can register to receive 10% off all items in the store year round by signing up to receive the monthly newsletter packed with their new findings. Customers more times than not will receive gifts just for browsing. Rare Posters helpful staff is available free of charge to assist customers in to make an informed decision on items
Rare Posters, Inc, 718-788-0791 135 Plymouth Street, Unit 412 in Brooklyn, New York is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and by appointment in the warehouse on the weekend.
In a continued effort to show our customers our appreciation for shopping at our site,http://www.rareposters.com, we are giving away free $30 Gift Coupons. The coupons give you $30 off on any purchase at our website. This combined with the 10% you will already receive by signing up for a free membership, is a substantial saving for you. It’s our pleasure to give back to our loyal customers for their continued support, and encourage you to take advantage of this free gift to you.
Items can be ordered directly online, and also by calling toll free 800-378-8899(USA and Canada) or 718-788-0791 (International).To redeem your reward online, enter the code “rare2008″ into the the shopping cart and press recalculate. The coupon will take effect if the order total exceeds $100.
We have taken strides this year to revitalize our website with our customers in mind. New features such as an easier-to-use and more attractive interface, and search filter are now there, and geared to make your time on the site a fast, comfortable experience. We have also added many new items of all kinds. Take a look at the “What’s New” section of our website and see the wonderful new exclusive lithographs and serigraphs there.
As always, your feedback is encouraged, we take stock in what our customers think. In fact, from now on, you will get another 10% off for suggestions that make their way to the website!
If you have any questions on any items on rareposters.com, don’t hesitate to contact us, we are here to help.
contact: Michael Dimino Head of Internet Sales Rare Posters, Inc 135 Plymouth Street, Unit 412 High Brooklyn, New York 11201 Email: diminomichael@rareposters.com Tel: 718-788-0791 www.rareposters.com
Artists and Publishers
Art Wise, a division of Rare Posters Inc in Brooklyn, NY, has introduced a new wholesale only web site. The new web site at www.artwiseonline.com will feature over five thousand images of open poster editions. It will also feature the collections from publishers world wide available through Art Wise. These collections include the editions of LEM, Italy, Hazan, France and Achenbach Editions in Germany.
The web site has an easy sign in for first time users. The easy sign in allows you to log in and create your own user ID and password without having to enter your complete company information. The web site will require complete company information upon placing your first order on-line.
Members enjoy the following benefits 1. Standard trade discounts built into the shopping cart. 2. A special account area per member that allows you to track items on order, and see a history of items shipped. 3. An extra 10% off for all orders placed on-line 4. Monthly newsletter and special buying opportunities. 5. Sell your own area where each member can offer their inventory to other vendors.
Becoming a member is free and gives our partners a fast access to thousands of great images, and hundreds of today’s top artists.
For more information, log onto www.artwiseonline.com or call Michael Dimino at (718) 788-0791 or toll free at (800) 378-8899. Send your e-mails to diminomichael@rareposters.com.
Art Wise is located at 135 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 and has been in business since 1992.
Rare Posters is pleased to announce its new collection of Mourlot Lithographs by select artists on its online store. The name of Mourlot is known the world over as the leading printer of works of art on paper for more than half of the 20th century. Mourlot’s printing is of the highest quality and therefore was used by masters such as Chagall, Picasso, and others. Unlike the vast majority of reproductions, these limited edition lithographs represent the finest examples of the printmaker’s art. Each of many colors is pressed separately in an intricate, time-consuming process. The final product is a rare artwork – a delight in itself – regardless of the original image.
About Mourlot
One of the few printers that survived both World Wars and other crises was Imprimerie Mourlot, established in 1852 and brought to success by Jules Mourlot at the beginning of the twentieth century. Jules Mourlot turned the business into a print shop where luxurious and colorful prints were produced. Jules Mourlot had nine children. Three of his sons, Georges, Maurice and Fernand, continued the business. Fernand Mourlot had graduated from art-school and thus was acquainted with several artists from the Ecole de Paris who were interested in creating lithography but lacked knowledge and money to do so. He invited them to the studio and this marked the beginning of years of cooperation between Fernand Mourlot, later on his son Jacques and artists like Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Gris, Braque, Léger, Miro and dozens of other famous names.
With Mourlot’s work on advanced printing techniques and inks, and his revolutionary decision to invite the artists to the studio to do the work directly on the stone; the stone lithograph process had a resurgence of popularity among the leading artists. In addition to Chagall, Picasso’s most important lithograph editions were done by the artist in a studio at Mourlot. The results of this cooperation were so astonishing that more and more gallery-owners chose to have their posters printed by Mourlot. For many years Mourlot had worked for museums only, but now a stream of new customers presented itself. This resulted in a huge production of different posters.
“Fernand Mourlot has long been the acknowledged master printer of France in every field, from lithographs to fine books to posters. The unfailing quality of his work commands the respect of museums, collectors, and most important of all, the artists themselves. Every product of his workshop bears the mark of Mourlot’s discipline and craft and can truly be called an ideal collaboration between artist and artisan.” says S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary, Smithsonian Institute.
About the Collection on Rare Posters, Inc’s Website
The new collection Rare Posters is offering on their website consist s of a very rare assortment of 80 Colorful Lithographs from Museum Exhibitions in France and The United States. The selection of artists is top notch, handpicked to present the broad scope of artists the print house represented. You will find exhibition prints by Yves Brayer from Wildenstein & Company in New York, Bernard Buffet from Musee Galleria in France, Marc Chagall from Ville de Marseille in France, Esteve from Grenoble son Musee, Yves Klein from an exhibition at Galerie Karl Flinker in Paris 1973, a LaCroix Atelier 68 Signed Lithograph, Limited Edition Andre Minaux Stone Lithographs, a Pablo Picasso exhibition print from L’Heritage De Delacroix, plus pieces by other renowned artists of the 20th century, all available for purchase.
“We are pleased to have this monumental suite of prints on exhibit exclusively at our website,” said Bernard Rougerie, President and Founder of the Rare Posters Inc, in New York City. “This is a rare opportunity for its visitors to view some of the great prints of the last century. Seeing all of the prints together allows us enormous insight into the mind of this master printmaker.”
Prices for items in this very special Mourlot print collection range from $45.00 to $2500 and can be ordered directly online or by calling Rare Posters directly at 718-788-0791. For more information, please email diminomichael@rareposters.com
