JACK RENNERT Is Recognized Throughout the World As the Foremost Authority in the Field

JACK RENNERT is recognized throughout the world as the foremost authority in the field of poster art.

Rennert has written many books on the subject (The Posters of Leonetto Cappiello, Alphonse Mucha: The Complete Posters and Panels, The Poster Art of Tomi Ungerer, 100 Years of Bicycle Posters, 100 Years of Circus Posters, 100 Posters of Paul Colin, 100 Posters of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, 100 Years of Dance Posters, etc.,.) His Posters of the Belle Epoque has sold over 30,000 copies and will shortly go into a third printing. He is currently working on a definitive catalogue of the graphics of Edward Penfield. He was a consultant on Time-Life Books for the poster section of the Collectibles Encyclopedia, and has edited more than a dozen other books on poster art.

Rennert has organized exhibitions of posters in many museums and institutions around the country, including the LincolnCenterMuseum for the Performing Arts, RadioCityMusic Hall, the French Embassy, bank and commercial buildings in New York and Chicago and several Japanese museums. He was consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Belle Epoque” show in New York (1982-83).

Posters from his own vast collection have formed an integral part of many museum exhibitions and he has frequently contributed to their catalogues as well. This includes “Timeless Images” (Japan), “Images of an Era” (Smithsonian), “Lautrec and his Contemporaries” (Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables), “Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau” (toured 7 cities, beginning at the San Diego Museum of Art), “Looping the Loop—Posters of Flight” (Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.), “The Artist and the Camera: Degas to Picasso” (Dallas Museum of Art, Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain), and the upcoming Sarah Bernhardt exhibition at the Jewish Museum.

Rennert is the curator of the Ivan Lendl Collection of Alphonse Mucha—which is now the world’s most important collection of this artist’s work—and organized exhibitions of it at the Matsuzakaya Museum in Tokyo in 1986 and at the Museé de Publicité in Paris in 1989.

Rennert inaugurated and organized all-poster auctions in the United States, beginning with a series at Phillips in 1979. In 1984 he founded his own firm, Poster Auctions International, currently the leading international marketplace for rare posters. The catalogues he produces have already become collectible items themselves. He has appraised collections for museums, auctions firms and collectors, and is president of Posters Please, Inc., a firm specializing in the sale of rare posters and books relating to them.

He has lectured extensively on the subject of poster art, from Warsaw to Paris, New York and California, and travels overseas every month from his New York home.

His overriding concern at the present is the establishment of the InternationalPosterMuseum in the City of New York.

Contact: David Reich 212 573-6000