Up for auction at Sotheby's is the first poster in film history

On August 28, 2018, Sotheby’s will auction off the first poster in the history of cinema.

It is a lithograph designed by French artist Henri Brispot to promote one of the Lumière brothers ’ first public screenings in Paris in 1895.

It was December 28, 1895, when the first paid film screening was held at the Salon indien du Grand Café in Paris: ten films by the Lumière brothers were shown in twenty minutes, and the first film poster was created for this occasion.

The lithograph, in the characteristic style of the Belle Époque, will sell for 40 thousand euros, but it is hoped that it will reach the figure of 67 thousand euros.
This one depicts a group of people at the entrance to the famous Parisian Café, while in the foreground a guard is seen trying to get a priest to change direction.

Source: El País

Up for auction at Sotheby's is the first poster in film history

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