JIM DIETZ VINTAGE POSTERS

BUYING, SELLING AND APPRAISAL OF VINTAGE FRENCH, ITALIAN, SPANISH AND BELGIUM POSTERS- MOVIE, PUBLICITY, FASHION, ART EXPOSITION, ETC

E MAIL: jsdietz@earthlink.net

(please use my e mail for fastest reply,not the phone)

2 MARCH 2008- I am in san diego now just back from Paris. Best way to reach me is via e mail- not phone.

6 JAN 2008 Update- I will be in New Orleans and in Paris from now till 26 Feb. Do not phone. E mail only if you want me to hold any posters.

18 Dec 2007- In San Diego now till 8 Jan. My next big series of Ebay auctions begin on 1 March 2008. My Paris flat is for rent from about 25 April to about 14 May 2008 and also anytime after about 15 June 2008.

8 Nov 2006 -I am just back from France with some great new posters- jazz, publicity, fashion, railroad, steamship line, movie, pin up, cabaret (Folies Bergere) CLICK HERE for these latest additions.

14 JULY 2006 UPDATE- Just back from 2 months in France with a lot of new posters, including Film Festival posters, some great Picasso and many new Art Exposition posters from the 1950's and 1960's and also more expo posters. Here are four examples below.

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28 May update- I have just acquired six very rare AMADO GONZALEZ (the Mexican Muralist) wine posters all done in 1965. Example below but for more, CLICK HERE

22 May,2006- update- I am leaving for 2 months in Cannes and Paris in a few days, looking for posters and going to auctions.Contact me via e mail only. By the way, I just bought a group of Bally (shoes) posters, circa 1970's, directly from a former Bally employee. I have some you have never seen before, I am sure. CLICK HERE

FEB 2006- just back from France with a great collection of GEORGES MATHIEU, (1921- ) AIR FRANCE POSTERS, CLICK HERE. EXAMPLE BELOW, also more Jazz festival posters and a great and rare MATISSE poster, CREOLE DANCERS. (BELOW)

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JUNE 2005-Just back from Paris,Cannes and St Tropez where I purchased, among other things, a large collection of 1990's gallery exposition posters, including many for Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) shows.

CLICK HERE for the Buffet posters for sale.

And CLICK HERE for other gallery exposition posters by French artists-examples below.

JEAN DUFY

Scrool to the bottom of the page for the poster links,but below are my lastest updates featuring posters I have just gotten.

NOTE: I have no search feature on this site, but just use GOOGLE-search using my last name- Dietz- and some words from the title you are searching for and if I have it, the link should come up on google.

(April 2005)I am just back from Paris with some great contemporary fashion posters. Go to my FASHION POSTER page. Also I acquired two French publicity poster that I've looked for for years. They are below.

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NICE- MATISSE- 40's, linen backed, $1000. .....CANNES,1962, PICASSO,,LINEN, $3000.

(both above are 26"x40")

. My Paris studio is available for rent from 1 August 2008 on. Min. rental is one month. CLICK HERE

I have just added a page of vintage and newer FILM FESTIVAL AND PUBLICITY/TRAVEL posters. CLICK HERE.

I have also just added a page for vintage French Caberet posters (50's and 60's) with art by Gruau and Brenot (Lido, Moulin Rouge, etc).Click here

AT THE PRESENT TIME, I AM NOT RUNNING E BAY AUCTIONS, SO DO NOT GO TO EBAY AND SEARCH UNDER MY SELLER NAME WHICH IS SOLDIERS. OR CLICK THE LINK BELOW

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For my past clients and for first time visitors to this web site, let me say a few words about myself. I am a long time vintage poster dealer and my speciality is French posters (movie posters, publicity posters, jazz posters, fashion posters, war posters, etc). (all of the links to my offerings are below and at the bottom of this page) I have a small flat in Paris where I spend every other month, except for the summers, when it is impossible to buy and sell posters in Paris because everyone is out of town on vacation. I keep most of my poster inventory in San Diego which is the reason I need to put an "UPDATE" as above, every other month. (When I am not in Paris, my flat there is usually for rent.)

I have just added a page of WAR AND PROPAGANDA posters - from both the USA (WW Two) and From France (WW One) CLICK HERE.

To see my new pages of French vintage art gallery exposition and Jazz posters, CLICK HERE.

ALSO CLICK HERE for Page two of Jazz Posters and CLICK HERE page one Jazz posters

And to see my latest French Fashion and Publicity posters, including many original Villemot's, CLICK HERE

SPECIAL UPDATE- I know the image below is NOT a movie poster, but I couldn't resist putting it on my site and it IS for sale. It is what the French call a PUBLICITY POSTER -this one for the great Paris Department store-PRINTEMPS- "Le grand magasin passionnement mode"- or "the great department store in love with fashion". If you were in Paris the summer of 1976 you would have seen the poster pasted on the walls of the Metro Stations and on walls anywhere where rich American tourists were about. The advertising campaign was a very short one and very few of these great posters survived- mainly because of their size and the fact that paste was used to display them. I have two near fine unused posters. The artist is HELENE MAJERA. She no longer makes posters; now she is a very well known abstract artist and she has had numerous one person shows in major French art galleries, including one just last December is the famous KIRON GALLERIE on rue La Vacquerie. The poster is the same size as the large French movie posters, 47"x63" and has NO folds and is in near mint.I have for sale now one of my copies at $1000. (by the way, it is the ONLY French publicity that I have ever seen with part of the text in English- a direct appeal to the many English speaking tourist!) The image is below. Date is 1976. I purchased this poster in May 2000. I had often heard this image discussed but never in 10 years of attending Paris Poster auctions had I seen it offered. It is a classic image that pretty much personifies one important aspect of French popular culture to foreign eyes. I consider it a very rare poster and one that some day will be worth MANY thousands of dollars.

I have just added a new page on my web site listing French publicity posters, vintage art gallery exhibit posters and French jazz posters that I have for sale. CLICK HERE.

I have just added to the New Acquisition page, French and U.S. posters, a PART THREE page- also check out PART FOUR of New vintage posters, French and U.S

SPECIAL NOTE- When you send me orders from off of this web site, it is of great help to me if you tell me the format of the poster; where you found it on my web site and its price..

MOST OF MY LINKS TO ALL OF MY POSTER PAGES ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. YOU WON'T MISS MUCH BY SKIPPING THIS NEXT BLURB!

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Many of you perhaps remember me from the 1970's and early 80's when I was an active movie poster dealer and author of numerous magazine articles and a book about movie memorabilia. I owned a movie poster shop in San Diego from about 1976 to 1982 and displayed and sold at all the major movie poster shows on the West Coast. In 1982 I closed the shop and researched and wrote the first price guide to movie posters, published in 1982 and 1985. I also began a second career as an appraiser of large poster collections owned by estates, museums and governments. I had my "15 minutes of fame" when I appraised the famous "Royal Theater Collection" for the Canadian government in the late 1980"s. I also supervised the auction of that famous collection and realized for the Canadian Court a sum 100 times greater than the Canadians orginally had valued the collection. The expression "Canadian Mint" - today meaning absolute mint condition (considering age)- had its origin in this collection.

On this first page are a few individual posters of which I have multiple copies, although the first two, to my knowledge, have never been on the market.

GILDA, r 1972, French, folded, but near mint, 47x63 $475. This is a classy poster!!!
(history of poster: I purchased this poster, as only the second owner, in Paris in 1982. This re issue is identical to the original (1946) classic that sells- when available -for over $3000.) (I ALSO HAVE THE SPANISH ORIGINAL, 27X41, AT $1650. LINEN BACKED.(one only) IMAGE RIGHT.

NAPOLEON, 1981 R. 27x41 rolled, very good condition $170
(this is the Copola re-issue with music-this was the orginal poster used only for the film's New York City debut- a high gloss photographic image- similar in design to the priceless silent original. I've owned this poster since 1981)

RAIDERS OF THE LAST ARK, German original, rolled, mint, 35x50 $125.

(When "Raiders" opened in 1981, I knew the U.S. poster with the great Amsel art would be a "keeper". As an active poster dealer at that time, I got as many as I could. Some I traded to a German collector for the German original. This is one. It uses a different version of the Amsel art and the paper is much heavier stock than the US poster. In the last 15 years I have not seen one of these German originals offered for sale. With the exception of collectors in Germany, I may have the only ones in the US.NOTE-the big shadow at the bottom right in this poster is NOT on the poster- just a poor image!)

SHIPPING IN THE USA OR CANADA IS $10. Foreign orders are mailed Air Post and customer pays that cost. e mail me for cost.
Please fax or E Mail your choices. I will hold your poster for 7 days. Everything I sell is returnable within seven days, but you pay the shipping, both directions.
IMPORTANT NOTE:: If for any reason I do NOT respond to your order by E Mail within 72 hours, phone to 619 677-2758-Also- Please do NOT E mail me extremely long messages Or attach images- unless I tell you to send them. When you finally do send in your payment, list what you are expecting!

Checks to JAMES DIETZ -personal checks OK.( no Canadian dollar checks-)

2726 Shelter Island Dr. San Diego, Ca. 92106
- E Mail jsdietz@earthlink.net

I accept MC and Visa via PAY PAL only. To access PAY PAL, just go to http://www.paypal.com (My paypal "name" is my e mail address.)

I have no catalog other than this web site, and in most instances I have no posters or lobby cards other than what is listed on this site. (If I do no respond to your "want list", It means I don't have it...or them.) If you are looking for any vintage French poster, before about 1975, please let me know. I am no longer actively buying movie posters, but if you have something in the Film Noir or Hitchcock category before 1960, or any vintage French or Belgium or Italian or Spanish posters, I might be interested. By the way, if you are new to the hobby or just want to keep up with the latest poster news, a good site to check out is Bruce Hershenson's site.

If you want to REALLY LEARN about movie posters visit the Learn About Movie Posters (L.A.M.P.) site. Click here.

FOR THE BEST PRICES IN POSTER FRAMES CONTACT HOLLYWOODPOSTERFRAMES.COM OR CALL 1 800 463 2994

. To contact me, e-mail (best way) or Phone 619 233 9299 -Now here are all the links to most of my poster pages:

VERY LATEST ADDITIONS

AMADO GONZALEZ POSTERS

FILM FESTIVAL POSTERS

FRENCH CABARET POSTERS

WAR AND PROPAGANDA POSTERS -USA and France.

FRENCH MOVIE POSTERS- NEW ACQUISITIONS

FRENCH JAZZ AND ART GALLERY POSTERS

FRENCH FASHION AND PUBLICTY POSTERS

FRENCH ART GALLERY EXHIBIT POSTERS

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