Les Affiches – Vintage Polish Poster Gallery.

Rancho Texas, western polonais de Wadim Berestowski, 1958 – Affiche de 1959
Artist: Jerzy Flisa | available for purchase
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Pascal Piskiewicz in France is proprietor/editor of Les Affiches, an online gallery/shop showcasing an extensive and magnificent collection of original vintage posters from Poland—rare to less rare. The posters highlighted above and below include links plus I have made note of the ones currently available for purchase. But these are just a mere fraction of the large number Pascal has on his site. I strongly encourage you to take a look and get lost in the vortex. It is wonderfully staggering.

Posters are organized and categorized by themes (cinema, theater, opera, jazz, circus and expositions) and artists (Henryk Tomaszewski [my personal favorite], Jan Lenica, Roman Cieslewicz, Jerzy Czerniawski, Stasys Eidrigevicius, Wiktor Sadowski and Jan Jaromir Aleksiun at present).

And the answer to your question is yes; Pascal does indeed ship worldwide.

L’art d’être aimée, film polonais, 1962, de Wojciech Has – Affiche rare, 1962
Artist: Witold Janowsk | available for purchase

Le policier, de Slawomir Mrozek
Artist: Henryk Tomaszewski| available for purchase

Pralnia, de Stanislaw Tym
Artist: Henryk Tomaszewski | available for purchase

III festival polonais de piano
Artist: unknown | available for purchase

Musiciens ambulants, film japonais, 1954, de Tadashi Imai – Affiche rare, 1956
Artist: Maciej Raducki | available for purchase

Festival de court métrage de Cracovie en 1987
Artist: forthcoming | available for purchase

Rétrospective des films d’Alfred Hitchcock de 1929 à 1938
Artist: Waldemar Swierzy | available for purchase

IXth international poster biennale, warsaw 1982
Artist: Jan Mlodozeniec | available for purchase

Rétrospective, en 1967, pour 50 ans de cinéma soviétique – Affiche rare
Artist: Maciej Zbikowski | available for purchase

Pedro odchodzi do Sierry, film cubain, 1962 de Julio G. Espinosa
Artist: Roslav Szaybo | available for purchase

Pour le parti communiste dans les années 50
Artist: Henryk Tomaszewski | available for purchase

Cyrk
Artist: Jan Lenica | available for purchase

Puisqu’il n’est pas là, de Tadeusz Peiper
Artist: Henryk Tomaszewski | available for purchase

Witkacy | Artist: Henryk Tomaszewski

Exposition d’affiche en 1965
Artist: Henryk Tomaszewski | available for purchase
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>> Les Affiches – Vintage Polish Poster Gallery
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A lot of patronizing information has been written about the ‘Polish School’ of poster design being a ‘product’ of a ‘resistance to Communism’ or some such. [...] That view, espoused by Western writers who don’t know any better, and Polish ones (who should know better) has been omnipresent lately. No matter that the idea of art as an expression of political circumstance is par excellence a classic communist one.

In fact, quite the opposite seems to be true: free from commercial stranglehold, these artists produced brilliant works over an extended period of time. A lot of talented people found themselves in the right place at the right time. Like any artistic movement (or ‘school’), it had its own dynamics, peaks and valleys. Indeed, some of the most accomplished works were political (pro-socialist). And now the fact that Polish film poster is dead (and had been so since 1989 when freedom dawned, and more to the point, film distribution was privatized) is further evidence of that.

>> Read/learn more at Classic Polish Film Posters (English translation link at top right)

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