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Known for our quick wits & slow delivery, we are delighted to announce the arrival of our 21st Poster by Jacques de Loustal. Like a reserve wine this is our 2004 vintage. Striking, colorful & humorous, Loustal's image is a youthful way to start a new chapter in our (may I say this?) legendary poster series.

Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Jacques de Loustal 2004
2004 Jacques de Loustal
Our Price: $79.00

In a parallel with his work in comic strip or BD art Jacques de Loustal also works as an illustrator for various publishers & the press, (The New Yorker, Senso, etc.) Regular exhibitions of his work are held in the Galerie Christian Desbois in Paris, the galerie Nicole Buck in Strasbourg, the galerie Papiers Gras in Geneva & the galerie Zigurat in Bruxelles.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Cathy Millet 1986
1986 Cathy Millet
Our Price: $175.00

Cathy Millet 1986. Collector series. Rare.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Tom Fowler 2003
2003 Tom Fowler
Our Price: $79.00

Tom Fowler's work can be found in the permanent graphics collections of the Library of Congress and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Hamburg, Germany. Tom's work for Willi's is striking, bold and graphically modern. It is a fitting 20th poster and a wonderful addition to the series. It was to be one of the last challenges Tom undertook and a project that gave us both much pleasure.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Jean Francois Octave 1987
1987 Jean Francois Octave
Our Price: $250.00

Jean François Octave 1987. Collector Series. Rare.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Gopal 2002
2002 Gopal
Our Price: $79.00

Gopal 2002
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Lyu Hanabusa 2001
2001 Lyu Hanabusa
Our Price: $79.00

We seem to be light years from the festive spirit that engulfed our lives not so long ago. I had no idea back in June 2001, when I asked Lyu Hanabusa for the meaning behind the small postage stamp image he presented me, that his charming words would become so loaded with gravity - "For peace, love & good wine in the new Millennium", he said with a shy smile. Those words returned that September, politely, as if to a waiting room.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster AM Cassandre 1983
1983 AM Cassandre
Our Price: $245.00

"Rarely has an image so sensually captured the richness of a great red wine. Working from a rigorous layout on a base treated 'à la Cassandre', he managed, through his mastery of the Airographe to bring out the luminous rubis of the wine being poured into the glass." - Alain Weill
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Alberto Bali 1999
1999 Alberto Bali
Our Price: $139.00

In 1983 Alberto Bali created the first contemporary poster for Willi's. I asked Alberto to do this 1999 edition for us, going full circle in the series, which then contained 15 Posters, thus starting a new chapter. "Bouclé la boucle" said Alberto.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Xavier Mariscal 1998
1998 Xavier Mariscal
Our Price: $139.00

In 1988 he created Estudio Mariscal. In 1999 he was awarded the National Design Prize. In 2002 Alma and Linus were born and there were 45 people in the studio. Now the bougainvillea in the studio spans 26 metres and the studio is working on 64 projects including a 280-metre sculpture and a 4-page book!
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Sophie Herxheimer 1997
1997 Sophie Herxheimer
Our Price: $160.00

Sophie Herxheimer, who describes herself as an 'English Rose', is responsible for the end of the sexist era in our poster series. You might be tempted, as myself, to enquire about the presence of a football and an armchair in your glass of wine…Sophie will reply that these are elements of association with relaxation and pleasure!
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Lyu Hanabusa 1993
1993 Lyu Hanabusa
Our Price: $299.00

When Hanabusa was asked to create a photographic image sympathetic to the enjoyment of wine for Willi's Wine Bar, he set out to create a strong, lasting and fantastical response to these pleasures. The result was a wonderfully successful addition to the bottle art series, created in homage to Man Ray.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Mister King 1996
1996 Mister King
Our Price: $79.00

Mark Williamson alias 'Mr King' was born in 1954, a catastrophic vintage, (for wine at least), following an education almost exclusively devoted to water sports on the Thames, he became the first apprentice chef in the history of the famous Connaught Hotel in London. In 1980 Mark purchased a seedy night spot 'Chez Bernard' at the Palais Royal to create the first wine bar in Paris…
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Alberto Bali 1984
1984 Alberto Bali
Our Price: $196.00

In 1983 Alberto Bali created the first contemporary poster for Willi's.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Arthur Cefai 1992
1992 Arthur Cefai
Our Price: $79.00

Design student, an artist with a number of one-man shows in Paris to his credit, teacher, parent, one-time barman and waiter at a world famous wine bar…
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Wayne Ensrud 2000
2000 Wayne Ensrud
Our Price: $110.00

Appropriate that Wayne Ensrud, always a 'fêtard' (party animal), should do the millenium poster. Celebration and festivity literally leap into outer space. Further comment here seems uncalled for.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Lyu Hanabusa 1993 Signed
1993 Lyu Hanabusa Signed
Our Price: $910.00

When Hanabusa was asked to create a photographic image sympathetic to the enjoyment of wine for Willi's Wine Bar, he set out to create a strong, lasting and fantastical response to these pleasures. The result was a wonderfully successful addition to the bottle art series, created in homage to Man Ray.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Serge Clement 1995
1995 Serge Clement
Our Price: $160.00

Serge Clement 1995
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Daniel Pudles 1991
1991 Daniel Pudles
Our Price: $196.00

An award winning video artist and illustrator, Daniel Pudles' illustrations have appeared in national newspapers including The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph and the weekly magazine The Economist.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Jean Charles de Castelbajac 2008
2008 Jean Charles de Castelbajac
Our Price: $450.00

Jean Charles de Castelbajac 2008 Signed
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Jacques de Loustal 2004
2004 Jacques de Loustal Signed
Our Price: $450.00

In a parallel with his work in comic strip or BD art Jacques de Loustal also works as an illustrator for various publishers & the press, (The New Yorker, Senso, etc.) Regular exhibitions of his work are held in the Galerie Christian Desbois in Paris, the galerie Nicole Buck in Strasbourg, the galerie Papiers Gras in Geneva and the galerie Zigurat in Bruxelles.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Tom Fowler 2003 Signed
2003 Tom Fowler Signed
Our Price: $450.00

Tom Fowler's work can be found in the permanent graphics collections of the Library of Congress and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Hamburg, Germany. Tom's work for Willi's is striking, bold and graphically modern. It is a fitting 20th poster and a wonderful addition to the series. It was to be one of the last challenges Tom undertook and a project that gave us both much pleasure.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Gopal 2002 Signed
2002 Gopal Signed
Our Price: $450.00

Gopal 2002
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Lyu Hanabusa 2001 Signed
2001 Lyu Hanabusa Signed
Our Price: $560.00

We seem to be light years from the festive spirit that engulfed our lives not so long ago. I had no idea back in June 2001, when I asked Lyu Hanabusa for the meaning behind the small postage stamp image he presented me, that his charming words would become so loaded with gravity - "For peace, love & good wine in the new Millennium", he said with a shy smile. Those words returned that September, politely, as if to a waiting room.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Wayne Ensrud 2000 Signed
2000 Wayne Ensrud Signed
Our Price: $560.00

Appropriate that Wayne Ensrud, always a 'fêtard' (party animal), should do the millenium poster. Celebration and festivity literally leap into outer space. Further comment here seems uncalled for.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Alberto Bali 1999 Signed
1999 Alberto Bali Signed
Our Price: $560.00

In 1983 Alberto Bali created the first contemporary poster for Willi's. I asked Alberto to do this 1999 edition for us, going full circle in the series, which then contained 15 Posters, thus starting a new chapter. "Bouclé la boucle" said Alberto.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Xavier Mariscal 1998 Signed
1998 Xavier Mariscal Signed
Our Price: $560.00

In 1988 he created Estudio Mariscal. In 1999 he was awarded the National Design Prize. In 2002 Alma and Linus were born and there were 45 people in the studio. Now the bougainvillea in the studio spans 26 metres and the studio is working on 64 projects including a 280-metre sculpture and a 4-page book!
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Sophie Herxheimer 1997 Signed
1997 Sophie Herxheimer Signed
Our Price: $560.00

Sophie Herxheimer, who describes herself as an 'English Rose', is responsible for the end of the sexist era in our poster series. You might be tempted, as myself, to enquire about the presence of a football and an armchair in your glass of wine…Sophie will reply that these are elements of association with relaxation and pleasure!
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Mister King 1996 Signed
1996 Mister King Signed
Our Price: $450.00

Mark Williamson alias 'Mr King' was born in 1954, a catastrophic vintage, (for wine at least), following an education almost exclusively devoted to water sports on the Thames, he became the first apprentice chef in the history of the famous Connaught Hotel in London. In 1980 Mark purchased a seedy night spot 'Chez Bernard' at the Palais Royal to create the first wine bar in Paris…
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Serge Clement 1995 Signed
1995 Serge Clement Signed
Our Price: $560.00

Serge Clement 1995.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Arthur Cefai 1992 Signed
1992 Arthur Cefai Signed
Our Price: $400.00

Design student, an artist with a number of one-man shows in Paris to his credit, teacher, parent, one-time barman and waiter at a world famous wine bar…
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Daniel Pudles 1991 Signed
1991 Daniel Pudles Signed
Our Price: $560.00

An award winning video artist and illustrator, Daniel Pudles' illustrations have appeared in national newspapers including The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph and the weekly magazine The Economist.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Anthony Palliser 1990 Signed
1990 Anthony Palliser Signed
Our Price: $950.00  

Out of Print.

"Palliser's paintings are given to a sensual, erotic romanticism unlike much of our contemporary painting, British or otherwise. It is not so much that he has kept himself from the various streams and contemporary currents of painting in the past two decades but that he has kept with a kind of aesthetic faith whose tenets suppose a belief in the materiality of mysteries." -Frederic Tuten
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Wayne Ensrud 1989
1989 Wayne Ensrud
Our Price: $299.00  

Wayne Ensrud 1989. Out of Print.

"Ensrud's art is like the irresistible puppy in the store window – animated, bubbly and charged with energy. It's the work of a painter who experiences life rather than contemplates it…" -The New York Times
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Frederick Voisin 1988
1988 Frederick Voisin
Our Price: $165.00

Frederick Voisin 1988. Rare. Collector.
Willis Wine Bar Bottle Art Poster Francois Boisrand 1985
1985 Francois Boisrand
Our Price: $299.00  

François Boisrand, 1985. Out of Print.

The poster, said Cassandre, is an "art form that provides the painter with an ideal opportunity to communicate with a broad public." He was himself an illustrious demonstration of this point, having started out on his career as a graphic artist in order to subsidise his ambition as a painter and then finally becoming one of the greatest graphic inventors of modern times. It was therefore an excellent idea on the part of Mark Williamson to have started up a collection of posters dedicated to his restaurant by going back to the roots with a new edition of one of the master's works. Every year since then, the Willi's Wine Bar collection has been enriched by a new work, made specially for it by a contemporary artist.

Before Cassandre, at the turn of the last century, leading avant-garde artists such as Seurat, Picasso and, later, Bonnard, to name but a few, found the poster to be a privileged medium for capturing and communicating the visual essence of the modern life that so captivated them. All the great modern movements, from Cubism to Futurism or Constructivism, discovered ways of using this new medium in accordance with their very diverse artistic objectives. The poster's graphic inventions, abridged modes of composition, symbolic vocabularies, effects of printed colour and technological developments all enriched their pictorial output. And the parameters particular to a well-made poster remain of great interest to many artists today. The work of the elect assembly who have responded to Mark Williamson's request is a case in point: witness the structured graphics of Alberto Bali, the "naïve" drawing of Octave or the stylised painterly manner of Boisrond. As for Hanabusa, the poster he made for 1993 is a splendid, droll and sensual icon reminiscent of Man Ray's woman-violin. In his poster for 2003, Tom Fowler offers his own take on Cassandre's pared-down geometry, while Artur Cefai's funny and tender drawing takes its inspiration from Cubism. The collection boasts a wide range of styles, whose variety is appreciated all the more clearly because they all illustrate the same theme. All these images represent concise and joyous variations on urban pleasures.

Ann Hindry, Paris, August 2005