Cigarettes Araks Vintage Advertising Poster by Leonetto Cappiello (c.1925) | Iconic Art Deco Tobacco Wall Art

Cigarettes Araks – A Vibrant 1925 Jazz Age Poster by Leonetto Cappiello

Capture the energy and glamour of the Roaring Twenties with Cigarettes Araks, a dynamic 1925 tobacco advertising poster by legendary Italian-French commercial artist Leonetto Cappiello.

Against an intense cobalt-blue background, a fashionable dancer twists through the composition in a brilliant golden-yellow dress. Her body forms a sweeping diagonal from her raised hand to her extended leg, creating a lively sense of rhythm and motion. Red shoes and a matching close-fitting cap provide vivid accents against the blue-and-yellow palette.

The dancer holds a lit cigarette in each hand. Long, curling trails of pale smoke weave around her body, echoing the movement of her arms, dress, and pose. Cappiello turns the smoke into an active decorative element, using its flowing lines to fill the background and visually frame the figure.

Her fringed dress, bare shoulders, cropped silhouette, and uninhibited pose reflect the modern fashion and nightlife culture associated with the Jazz Age. Rather than showing the product package, Cappiello sells a carefully constructed atmosphere of energy, sophistication, liberation, and fashionable social life.

Large white lettering announces “Cigarettes Araks” across the lower portion. The simplified typography remains readable from a distance while allowing the dancer to dominate the composition. Cappiello’s signature appears along the lower-right side.

The poster’s saturated primary colors, flattened background, streamlined female figure, and flowing graphic lines place it firmly within the visual world of Art Deco. Today, it is most appropriately appreciated as an artifact of poster design, fashion, nightlife, women’s representation, and tobacco-advertising history.

Why Collectors Value This Print

• Created by master advertising artist Leonetto Cappiello
• Reproduces a vivid French cigarette poster from 1925
• Promotes the historic Araks cigarette brand
• Features an energetic Jazz Age dancer
• Uses two cigarettes as extensions of the figure’s expressive pose
• Transforms curling smoke into decorative graphic lines
• Pairs brilliant yellow with a saturated cobalt-blue background
• Includes vivid red accents in the dancer’s cap and shoes
• Captures the fashion and movement of the Roaring Twenties
• Demonstrates Cappiello’s mastery of simplified visual storytelling
• Features bold typography designed for immediate recognition
• Offers insight into the marketing of tobacco to modern women
• Documents the glamourization of smoking in period advertising
• Appeals to collectors of Art Deco and nightlife imagery
• Preserves a visually powerful example of commercial-art history

Available Print & Display Options

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Choose a traditional fine-art print, ready-to-display framed artwork, dimensional canvas, or sleek metal print. Each format emphasizes the poster’s brilliant yellow dress, cobalt-blue field, sweeping smoke, vivid red accents, and monumental white typography.

Artwork Details

• Title: Cigarettes Araks
• Artist: Leonetto Cappiello
• Date: 1925
• Country of origin: France
• Historic brand: Araks
• Product advertised: Cigarettes
• Primary subject: A fashionable dancer holding two lit cigarettes
• Secondary imagery: Curling cigarette smoke and fringed Jazz Age fashion
• Style: French Art Deco tobacco and nightlife advertising
• Composition: Full-length figure arranged along a sweeping diagonal
• Primary colors: Cobalt blue, golden yellow, white, red, orange, and gray
• Mood: Energetic, glamorous, liberated, and historically evocative
• Recommended settings: Curated collection, lounge, study, theater room, library, or museum-style display
• Collector appeal: Cappiello artwork, Jazz Age fashion, Art Deco graphics, and tobacco-advertising history
• Visible signature: Cappiello

Disclaimer

This artwork is a Museum Grade Reproduction of a Historical advertising poster.

It is offered as a decorative and educational reproduction and is not an original 1925 advertising lithograph. Minor variations in color, visible texture, proportions, or cropping may occur among available sizes and formats.

This artwork reproduces a historical tobacco advertisement and is presented solely for its artistic, decorative, and historical value. Yesterday’s Posters does not endorse or encourage smoking or tobacco use. Tobacco and nicotine products are harmful, addictive, and may cause serious disease.

Yesterday’s Posters is an independent seller and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Cigarettes Araks, Leonetto Cappiello, any historic tobacco manufacturer, or any associated companies or rights holders.