Sign for a School for Pirates

Color lithographic poster created by Max Ernst and produced by the Atelier Mourlot studio located at 115 Bank Street in New York. Founded in 1852 in Paris, the studio was a lithographic print shop and became known for its production of high quality posters beginning in the 1920s. Fernand Mourlot (1895-1988), ran the studio for six decades. Under his patronage, many major twentieth century artists worked there to create original graphic works of art. Among an extensive list are: Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Miró, Chagall, Le Corbusier, Calder, Rosenquist, Giacometti, Kelly, Rauschenberg, Matta, Siqueiros, Delacroix, Utrillo, Ernst, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Léger, Dubuffet and Moore. Max Ernest was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. He was one of the early innovators in the Dada movement and Surrealism. From 1942-1946 he was married to art patron Peggy Guggenheim, and lived in several locations in the United States.