Josef Vyleťal’s surreal poster artwork for ’60s British crime movie.

• title: The Trygon Factor | Znamení trojuhelníku | UK, West Germany, 1966
• director: Cyril Frankel
• with: Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire, Robert Morley
• writer: Edgar Wallace (based on novel)

poster design: Josef Vyleťal, 1966

Poster is in A3 format (41.2 x 29 cm). Slight crease in the corners. Few tiny cracks across the edges. Excellent condition (NOT PHOTOGRAPHED, PLEASE ASK IF YOU WISH TO SEE A PHOTO).

Movie posters in our collection were promotional materials. Posters used on display in the cinemas across the former Czechoslovakia. They bear signs of their age.

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Josef Vyleťal (1940 – 1989) – Czech painter, graphic artist and film / theatre set designer. He studied architecture at the Technical University in Bratislava and at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. In between 1964 – 1979 he created 115 movie posters. His major influences were surrealism and paintings by North Renaissance old masters. He was married to fine artist and award winning poster designer Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová.
Award Winning Posters by Josef Vyleťal:

• 1979 – 2nd prize The Hollywood Reporter Magazine, Silver Hugo at the International Film Festival in Chicago (Beauty and the Beast)

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surreal posters designed in Czechoslovakia.

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1960s posters available in our poster archive.

 

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