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The Posters and the Plans · The Continental Links
Le Golf de Font-Romeu
Leonetto Cappiello, lithographic poster, 1929 · lithographic poster
What it is
Leonetto Cappiello’s poster for the golf course at Font-Romeu, high in the French Pyrenees.
Why it matters
Cappiello effectively invented the modern advertising poster — a single luminous figure against flat dark ground — and here he aims it at golf.
What to notice
The background is nearly black so the figure detonates off it. That trick is his, and everyone has stolen it since.
Sell the feeling, not the field.
Provenance
- Maker
- Leonetto Cappiello, lithographic poster, 1929
- Era
- The Haskell — the Rubber Core (1898–1930)
- Chapter
- The Course Surveyed
- Medium
- lithographic poster
- Made
- 1929
- Course
- Font-Romeu (historical-document doctrine — the poster names its own ground)
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France / Gallica
Historical document
This is a period artefact that names its own ground. The place-name appears here as the historical record shows it — never as a house mark, a keyword, or an endorsement, and never pre-populated anywhere in this shop.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 40x60" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
