Vintage Travel Poster Font Romeu Pyrenees – Achille Luciano Mauzan (1923)
In 1923, at the height of the Art Deco movement, the Franco-Italian poster master Achille Luciano Mauzan created this captivating advertising image for Font Romeu — a composition that distils his extraordinary gift for combining commercial appeal with genuine artistic distinction. Bold, assured, and suffused with the glamour of the early 1920s, it is a poster that stops you in your tracks as surely today as it did on the streets of its era.
Achille Luciano Mauzan — Master of Two Continents
Achille Luciano Mauzan (1883–1952) was one of the most remarkable commercial artists of the early twentieth century, equally celebrated in Europe and South America. Born in Gap in the French Alps, he trained in Lyon before establishing himself in Turin, where he became one of the most sought-after poster artists in Italy. His style — characterised by beautifully observed human figures, rich colour, and an instinctive unde...
