Junglebogen - Jungle Book Original Danish Advertising Poster
- 1946
- Aaga Sikker-Hansen
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24 x 33 inches ~ (60 x 83 cm)$1,550
- Unbacked
This poster is currently unbacked. At check out, you will be given the opportunity to add backing which would cost $145 and take approximately 6-8 weeks.
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself. Backing is what we recommend for framing, and for any poster needing restoration.
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- Printed by Andreasen & Lachmann, Kobenhavn
"The established, older illustrators made a number of their most successful posters in the first post-war years and in the 1950s. In this international phase of decolonization, Sikker-Hansen drew two colored advertising girls for FDB's [the Danish Consumer Association] poster campaigns for tobacco and coffee, just as the poster with the wolf boy Mowgli, his third 'noble wild,' is from these years. With its anthropological, evocative realism, the study of light, and the simple movement of the composition, it is one of the absolute exceptions among the cultural-industrial images of the time" (Danish Posters, p. 30). This poster advertises Danish screenings of the first film release of "Jungle Book;" the 1942 Technicolor action-adventure film employed real animals in the fanciful narrative. Produced by the Hungarian Korda brothers and initially released in the United Kingdom, the film was nominated for four Oscars.
