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Prize Posters

PRIZE POSTERS

An exhibition and sale of Antique and Classic French Posters
personally selected for their value and quality by DeLind Fine Art Appraisals.

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Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)

Andy Warhol constantly searched pop culture for inspiration, and his iconic portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong was no exception. In 1972, President Richard Nixon ended years of diplomatic isolation between the US and China when he visited China to meet with Mao, a controversial Communist revolutionary and founder of the People’s Republic of China. This historic event deeply affected Warhol, as he created this work of the Chinese leader in the years following Nixon’s highly-publicized visit. 

Warhol’s source image for this work was a photograph of Mao that illustrated the cover of the widely circulated Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong book carried by Mao’s followers. Warhol’s portraits of Mao are considered to be among Warhol’s first explicitly political pieces. In commenting on the nature of state-controlled media by joining it together with the visual language of Western advertising, Warhol made a clear statement about propaganda and psychological influence.

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Espiru-Miro

Miró used color and form in a symbolic rather than literal manner, his intricate compositions combining abstract elements with recurring motifs like birds, eyes, and the moon.

In 1975, Joan and Miquel Gaspar published a book containing Miro engravings and etchings accompanied by poems by the Catalan poet Salvador Espriu.

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Portrait of John Lee

John Lee (1788-1871) was the son of Thomas Sim Lee, American Statesman for Frederick County, Maryland, although not a signatory of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation or the US Constitution, he was an important participant in the process of their creation. Thomas Sim Lee was the second State Governor of Maryland serving twice from 1779 to 1783 and again 1792 to 1794.

He also served as a delegate of Maryland in the Congress of the Confederation in 1783 and was a member of the House of Delegates in 1787. He worked closely with the founding fathers and played an important part in the birth of his sate and the nation.

John Lee 1788-1817 son of Thomas Sim Lee was a US Representative from Maryland. Elected as a Jackson Federalist to the eighteenth Congress 1823-1825. He was chairman of the committee of the House of Representatives appointed to escort the Marquis de Lafayette from Frederick County to Washington in 1825.