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Leonetto CappielloFrench Vintage Modern Art Deco Nitrolian Fast Drying Paint Promotional Poster 1929
1929
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Modern art deco promotional poster by artist and illustrator Leonetto Cappiello. The work features a man using Nitrolian paint to paint a set of stairs as a woman walks down. The paint dries so fast that the woman doesn't get any paint on her. Signed and dated in the print in the front lower right corner. The work is currently hung in a simple black frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 36 in. x W 27 in.
Artist Biography: Leonetto Cappiello was born in Leghorn, Italy in 1875. Right from his youth he was a self-taught artist. His earliest known works dating to 1889, his early drawings, presented at the Promotrice di Firenze of 1891 unfortunately are lost. In the same year Diego Martelli introduced the young Cappiello to the group of Leghorn artists, and his work as an artist ranges from subject matters that includes portraits, interiors with figures, and landscapes, and he worked on these themes until the end of the century.
In 1898 he joined his brother who was working in Paris and almost immediately decided to settle there. In 1896 he had already published an album of caricatures in Leghorn called the Lanterna Magica (The Magic Lantern) and it was with this work as advertising and commercial artist that he made his career in Paris. As a caricaturist he worked on numerous French magazines and was very successful because of his extremely innovative language. In 1900 he signed a contract as commercial artist with the editor Vercasson. He worked for sixteen years producing hundreds of posters, bills and affiches.
In 1903 Leonetto Cappiello produced a poster for Choccolat Klaus that was a great success because of the innovative boldness he brought to the language of advertising. In this product and in later contracts the images or the characters he uses are not only related to the product that was to be advertised but also exist independently as a 'brand' so becoming unique and recognizable creations irrespective of what they are advertising.
From 1912 he also worked as an interior decorator. Various rooms in the Galeries Lafayette in Paris and at Villa Dreyfus at Saint Germani en Laye are evidence of this, and in 1914 he was decorated with the Legion of Honour.
During the First World War he returned to Italy to do military service, and when the war ended, he went back to France and entered into a contract with the editor Devambez, working for him until 1936. It was Devambez himself who organized a retrospective exhibition of Cappiello's work in Paris. In 1923 he worked on the decoration of several Parisian stores and in 1937 for the advertising stand at the Esposizione Universale di Parigi, for which he was also Vice President.
During WWII he moved to the south of France to Grasse. Leonetto Cappiello died in Cannes in 1942.
- Creator:Leonetto Cappiello (1875 - 1942, French)
- Creation Year:1929
- Dimensions:Height: 40 in (101.6 cm)Width: 30.13 in (76.54 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Houston, TX
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Leonetto Cappiello
Leonetto Cappiello was born in 1875 in Livorno, Italy, but took on the nationality of French in 1930. He first achieved fame as a caricaturist, then by inventing the modern poster and creating the first brand logos, including the green devil for Maurin Quina. A self-taught artist, he created his first paintings in 1886. In November of 1900, he signed his first contract with the publisher P. Vercasson, for whom he produced posters from 1902 to 1913. After World War I he joined the publisher Devambez, for whom he worked until 1936. In 1922, his poster sketches were exhibited at the Venice Biennial and the French Institut in New York. In 1928 his “Self Portrait” was ordered by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. In 1936 he participated in the Milan Triennial and the Exhibition of the French Poster in Prague. After his death in 1942, Cappiello’s work was the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1947, the House of Culture in Livorno, Italy, in 1960 and the Grand Palais in Paris in 1981.
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