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A homage to Max Ponty

Poster
1992 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Exhibition poster for Gitanes cigrettes, with image of a dancing woman in long skirt as a black silhouette (her feet only) and her whole figure showing upside-down as an elongated blue shadow, against a yellow background.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA homage to Max Ponty (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Screenprint on paper
Brief description
Poster, 'A homage to Max Ponty', exhibition poster for Gitanes Cigarettes, designed by Alan Fletcher, Pentagram; British, ca. 1992.
Physical description
Exhibition poster for Gitanes cigrettes, with image of a dancing woman in long skirt as a black silhouette (her feet only) and her whole figure showing upside-down as an elongated blue shadow, against a yellow background.
Dimensions
  • Height: 84cm
  • Width: 55cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Design Alan Fletcher (Vertically top right corner, in black)
  • a homage to Max Ponty (In black lower left)
Credit line
Given by Alan Fletcher
Object history
Part of a gift from Alan Fletcher of his archive to represent his design output from the 1970s to the present day.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Myerson, Jeremy. Beware wet paint: designs by Alan Fletcher. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1996.
Collection
Accession number
E.427-2003

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Record createdMay 28, 2009
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