Gitanes c1960 French Cigarette Advertising Poster, Lefor Openo Operation Tonnerre This first edition offset lithograph

This first edition offset lithograph is sized 26 1/2 x 38 1/2 inches

Some staining on back with light bleed through to the front

Michelangelo Papuzza's super cool and stylised design for the Italian 2 sheet film poster is one of our favourites for the title and we think it works particularly well on the large scale of this poster

We love this striking limited edition screenprint by Shepard Fairey

At the time the firm was awarded several prizes

Gitanes c1960 French Cigarette Advertising Poster, Lefor Openo Operation Tonnerre This first edition offset lithographWonderfully quirky and contemporary design by Lefor Openo features on this original 1960s French advertising poster for cigarette brand Gitanes. In the 1950s and 1960s, Marie Claire Lefort and Marie Francine Oppeneau produced a series of bold posters. The two women met in art school, and then studied together at the Ecole Paul Colin in Paris. They produced charming posters for the Loterie Nationale, Charles De Gaulle's political campaign and other