From the 1900's to the 2000's S2 Art and the RE Society collaborated to recreate, as fine art lithographs, the vintage Golden Age of Advertising posters (1885 - 1939). The list includes prominent artists such as Gustav Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec, Leonetto Cappiello, Alphonse Mucha, and Theophile Steinlen - to name a few. To recreate the vintage posters, a skilled artist hand-draws each plate, one for each color, while viewing the originals. The hand-drawn plates are hand-pulled, one color at a time, on a 19th-century flatbed French Marinoni Voirin lithographic press. Pulling each plate in perfect registration ensures that the colors match the pristine appearance of the original posters. The publisher also owns a 19th-century German Dufa lithographic flatbed press (also known as the beast). These are the same presses used to create the original vintage posters from the past.

The expensive low-tech labor-intensive process used to recreate these vintage posters is almost a lost art. 

When Jack Solomon passed away in 2012 S2 Art ceased publishing. We still have the S2 Art golden age of advertising posters for you to purchase and enjoy.