Monaco Sports 1913 Original Magazine Cover Print RefPO#08 He has been called the

He has been called the father of the modern poster

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was 63 and relatively unknown as an artist when he submitted this design to a competition sponsored by the Parisian newspaper L’Eclair

The lovely laundress sees three starched shirts walking merrily on the street outside her window" (Rennert

After participating in World War I he worked as an illustrator for the magazine La Vie Parisienne

Monaco Sports 1913 Original Magazine Cover Print RefPO#08 He has been called theThis is a cover illustration for the 1913 edition of the Monaco Sports Magazine. It was designed by artist Umberto Brunelleschi. Umberto Brunelleschi (1879 1949) was an Italian artist. He moved to Paris in 1900 where he soon established himself as a printer, book illustrator, set and costume designer. He worked for Le Rire as a caricaturist (often under the pseudonym's Aroun al Raxid or Aron al Rascid) and was a contributor to many of the deluxe