The work of underrated Argentinean movie poster artist known simply as RAF is not a bunch of riff-raff as he has been delighting movie poster fans for ages with his universally elegant style…
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Don’t Cry For Me Argentina!
That Internet-ional movie poster powerhouse, EMoviePoster, has a ton of strangely seductive Argentinean one-sheets, including a few by Essex and Osvaldo Venturi — as well as oversized USA 3-sheets and 6-sheets — up on the chopping block today…
The Great Venturi
One of my favorite all-time movie poster artists is the Argentinean illustrator, Osvaldo Venturi — who I didn’t even know existed until a year and a half ago when I stumbled upon his work in The Art of The Modern Movie Poster from The Posteritati Gallery in NYC.
Venturi’s elegant posters from the 1940s and 19450s are more like paintings than one sheets, filled with vivid, swirling bursts of color and large dramatic faces of movie stars (perhaps he was the one who invented the notorious “floating heads“).
The price ranges for these beauties are all over the map from thousands of dollars on eBay to just a couple ten spots on EMoviePoster if you get lucky. So, to paraphrase Ferris Bueller, “if you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.”
Essex Movie Posters
Lately, I’ve been on an Argentinean movie posters kick — but don’t cry for me, Argentina…even though some of these country of origin posters do nearly bring me to tears!
And one of my favorite Argentinean poster artists goes by the name Essex. Wish I could tell you more about him (or her), but aside from the recognizable signature and a few listed credits on some movie poster websites, such as LAMP and Posteritati — that’s all I could find! But all you need is to take one look at Essex’s version of The Lost Weekend and you too will soon get lost in the beautiful haze…
(By the way, his John Hancock reminds me of the old Esso Gas logo.)
Movie Poster Museum 