Kiss of Judas, The (Il Bacio di Giuda, Italy), 1954
Lithograph
27.5 x 13 in
In 1945 he and his two great contemporaries Alfredo Capitani and Luigi Martinati formed a company called BCM which dominated movie poster production for the next twenty years. Under contract to Columbia, the studio for whom Rita Hayworth was the biggest star in the 1940s, Ballester got to design many of Hayworth’s posters.
