A Poster Market Without Borders

If one were to assume that posters were a specifically French medium it wouldn’t be surprising. The footprint of posters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in France is vast, extending beyond the walls of the country’s major metropolises and etching their imagery into the international, art-historical and cultural consciousness. Artists like Alphonse Mucha, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Jules Chéret, institutions such as the Moulin Rouge, performers like Sarah Bernhardt and Aristide Bruant, even the terms La Belle Époque, Art Nouveau and Art Deco all evoke in the mind’s eye something to do with the strength and prominence (if not the universality)…