G Nanni Art Deco Artist Postcards
Here we have two splendid Italian Art Deco postcards, an advertising postcard and a fashion illustration postcard. While we think of Art Deco as something which took hold in the 1920's many Italian postcard artists were producing images such as these in the previous decade.
The artist was Giovanni Nanni (1888 - 1969) who was active throughout the WW1 era and into the 1920's and 30's illustrating womens fashion and producing advertising cards.
The postcard above is an advertising postcard, dating I think from the early 1920's. During the First World War women took over workplace positions once held by their, now soldier, fathers and brothers. This postcard features an office worker heating a coffee pot with a tablet of META Combistible Solido, a form of solid fuel (in tablets or blocks) used to safely boil water. On the wall behind the woman is a META calendar.
The postcard below is typical of his early and much collected work, a fashionably dressed young woman with her greyhound dogs. The greyhound was a popular Art Deco icon, the bony lines of the dog reflecting the slender and angular frame of the woman. This postcard was published in Milan in December 1917.
Both postcards are very nice examples of this illustrators work.
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