The Butcher 1972 Academy Cinema UK Quad Film Poster, Peter Strausfeld Gregory Peck and one very small tear

and one very small tear on right hand fold edge

Fantastic 60s style

where designers often treated posters as interpretive artwork rather than straightforward promotion

This vintage movie poster is in fantastic rolled condition and is sized 26 1/4 x 38 inches

alternative artwork features on the Czech poster for West Side Story

The Butcher 1972 Academy Cinema UK Quad Film Poster, Peter Strausfeld Gregory Peck and one very small tearWonderfully powerful and intimate design by Peter Strausfeld for one of Claude Chabrol's finest thrillers Le Boucher (The Butcher). Cologne born Strausfeld came to England in 1938. Whilst interned on the Isle of Man during the Second World War, he developed a close friendship with fellow internee George Hoellering. In 1947 Hoellering became the director of Londons pre eminent art house, The Academy Cinema, on Oxford Street and, disliking the studio