This exhibition of vintage French movie posters comprises around 30 classic examples priced from $35 to $2500 drawn from their stock of some 250 covering the genre. From 1959 comes A bout de souffle (Breathless) above which costs $450. This Jean-Luc Godard classic is one of many in the exhibition, which covers some of the most famous French films of all time, including Truffaut’s Jules et Jim and Jules Dassin’s Rififi.
And it also encompasses some of the household names of French cinema, like Jeanne Moreau, Bardot, Belmondo, Jean Seberg and Alain Delon.
Posteritati is the world’s top dealership, concerned only with rare and vintage movie posters and carries a general stock of some 12,000 originals from over 38 countries.
Gangsters of New York – in French
NEW YORK specialist dealers in movie posters Posteritati hold some beguiling selling shows, but they look like being onto an international winner with their current one – French Gangsters & The New Wave – which runs at their gallery at 239 Centre Street until March 4.
