When We Were Modern
“I haven’t changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it… It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence…
The Best of the Salon des Cent
Let's embark Jules Verne's Time Machine. Now! –It's the Belle Époque in Paris. On the Rive Gauche, In St-Germain-des-Prés, around the corner from Les Deux Magots and Café de Flore, at…
“I’ve Come to Look for America”
It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saganaw. – Paul Simon
Welcome to the new Rennert’s Gallery!
Dear Friends, We're excited to introduce our completely reinvented website! We hope you'll enjoy a much more user-friendly experience, and be able to enjoy the superb art our consigners bring to…
“Something we’ve never seen before”: Jack Rennert’s Guide to PAI-LXX Posters
Jack Rennert, President of Poster Auctions International, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on poster art. He’s authored works on Cappiello, Mucha, Colin, and many more; posters from his…
And Now, the Glutton: Toulouse-Lautrec Today
CAN AN OBJECT be too famous? The Mona Lisa comes to mind, but I think we can class Toulouse-Lautrec’s Moulin Rouge / La Goulue (1891) as another contender, if we entertain…
The Very Quiet Complications of Edward Penfield
PENFIELD’S Harper’s posters have been called “the definitive graphic works of the 1890s” by the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum. Let that sink in for a minute. In France, at around…