Original Art

20th -21st Century

An iconic Frenchman by the name of Jules Chéret changed the world in the 1880's with a monumental breakthrough that allowed fellow artist to achieve full color with his lithographic process. At that time Paris was the center of the art universe, La Belle Epoque and the Art Nouveau movement were beginning to bloom. Toulouse-Lautrec, Leonetto Cappiello, and Alphonse Mucha were changing the advertising world with a proliferation of Opera, Bicycle and Burlesque posters.