René Magritte’s Early Art Deco Advertising Posters, 1924-1927
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The Belgian painter René Magritte created some of the most enigmatic and iconic works in Surrealist art. But before he moved to Paris in 1927 and began forging relationships with André Breton and the Surrealists, Magritte struggled in Brussels as a freelance commercial artist, creating advertisements in the Art Deco style.
In 1924 Magritte began designing posters and advertisements for the couturier Honorine “Norine” Deschrijver and her husband Paul-Gustave Van Hecke, owners of the Belgian fashion company Norine. Van Hecke also owned art galleries, and was an early champion of surrealism. Van Hecke would eventually pay Magritte a stipend in exchange for the right to market his surrealist works. In the 1924 advertising poster above, Magritte portrays a woman in high heels pretending to be Lord Lister, the gentleman thief from German pulp fiction, wearing “an afternoon coat created by Norine.”
http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/rene-magrittes-early-art-deco-advertising-posters-1924-1927.html
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Like Andy Warhol, coincidentally.
My favorite artist from that era was a guy, Roger Broders, who was one of the biggest French railway poster-masters - I can't pick a favorite, but this is one that would be on my short list:
I doubt Rome in his time was quite like the painting here, but still, in your imagination, there's a kind of idyllicness to the scene. Anyway, sorry for the hijack. 
K&R
Much thanks for adding Broders. 
My favorite parts of Antiques Roadshow!
Imagine being in a small town back in the day, dreaming of the world beyond based on these incredible evocations of the unknown, domestic and foreign. Most of these graphic artists are so unacknowledged but I love their work.
But I don't care - I love them all.
And then the ones from early air travel, particularly Air France, like this:
I have a copy of this that I'd like to frame and hang, but alas, no room. One day!
I have a couple of walls that would welcome a Magritte print. I just have to talk my husband into it. 
