Leonetto Cappiello
French · 1875–1942 · Painter, Printmaker
Leonetto Cappiello was an Italian and French poster art designer and painter, who mainly lived and worked in Paris. He is now often called 'the father of modern advertising'… (Wikipedia)
1 work by Leonetto Cappiello with an auction history (offered more than once) →
Record prices
Absinthe Gempp Pernod -- Lunel PosterSloans & Kenyon · $11,000≈ £8,816≈ €10,252Sign up to see
Parapluie Revel, les trois personnages de face, souriantDe Baecque et Associés · €7,000≈ $8,081≈ £6,163Sign up to see
BITTER CAMPARIBonhams · €6,120≈ $6,436≈ £5,291Sign up to see
Leonetto Cappiello’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).
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- Cognac Monnet, 1927$3,525≈ £1,857≈ €2,718Sign up free to see
- $700≈ £382≈ €559Sign up free to see
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. €400–600
- Le Thermogène, circa 1930Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $2,000–4,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. €300–400
- Bitter Campari, 1921Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. €4,000–7,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. €2,000–4,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. €600–800
- Contratto, circa 1922Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $6,000–8,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. €400–500
Also offered, result not published (20)
Lots by Leonetto Cappiello that were offered at auction where the house did not publish whether they sold. Not counted in any statistics.
Leonetto Cappiello prints (119)Leonetto Cappiello lithographs (41)
About Leonetto Cappiello
Leonetto Cappiello was an Italian and French poster art designer and painter, who mainly lived and worked in Paris. He is now often called 'the father of modern advertising' because of his innovation in poster design. The early advertising poster was characterized by a painterly quality as evidenced by early poster artists Jules Chéret, Alfred Choubrac and Hugo D'Alesi. Cappiello, like other young artists, worked in a way that was almost the opposite of his predecessors. He was the first poster artist to use bold figures popping out of black backgrounds, a startling contrast to the posters early norm.
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In museum collections
Musée d'Orsay · Public domainYvette Guilbert, 1899
Musée d'Orsay · Public domainA Boy on a Zebra
Wikimedia Commons · Public domainThermogène warms you up., 1909
Poster Museum at Wilanów · Public domain
