This is a rare, circa 1935 poster (37"x 48") advertising Cyrene aftershave lotion by H.A. Rey.  H. A. Rey (born Hans Augusto Reyersbach; September 16, 1898 – August 26, 1977) was a German-born American illustrator and author, best known for the long running classic series of children's picture books about Curious George that he and his wife Margret Rey, created.

Hans Augusto Reyersbach was born in Hamburg, German Empire on September 16, 1898. He and his wife, Margret first met in Hamburg at Margret's sister's 16th birthday party. They met again in Brazil, where Rey was working as a salesman of bathtubs and Margret had gone to escape the rise of Nazism in Germany. Dismayed to find Hans wasting his artistic talent, she convinced him to leave the import-export business and together they founded Rio de Janeiro's first advertising agency. They married in 1935 and moved to Paris, France in August of that year. They lived in Montmartre and fled Paris from the Nazis, in June 1940 on bicycles, carrying the Curious George manuscript with them. They received visas in Bayonne under instructions from the Portuguese consul in Bordeaux, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, which enabled them to leave Europe via Portugal.

Stone Litho, Linen backed.

More on this extraordinary couple here: