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A striking and highly decorative original vintage travel poster promoting Sardinia, issued by ENIT in 1951 and designed by the Italian Futurist artist Domenico Mino Delle Site. Domenico “Mino” Delle Site was an Italian painter and sculptor from Lecce, born in 1914 and active as a leading figure in Futurist Aeropittura

The poster presents a stylized map-like silhouette of Sardinia filled with symbolic imagery associated with the island’s culture and landscape. A white lamb carrying flowers dominates the foreground, while a traditionally dressed rider on horseback and an ancient stone structure evoke Sardinia’s rural traditions and historic past. The composition is rendered in Delle Site’s distinctive modernist style, combining geometric forms, soft pastel tones, and elegant decorative abstraction.

Domenico Delle Site was closely associated with the Italian Futurist movement and became known for integrating modern graphic design with simplified symbolic imagery. His travel posters from the postwar period are particularly admired for their sophisticated balance between modernism and regional identity.

An especially attractive feature of this poster is the original varnish coating applied during printing, giving the surface a subtle richness and depth rarely preserved today.

Mounted on linen. Very good condition.