Sale 2459 - Rare & Important Travel Posters, October 26, 2017

DESIGNER UNKNOWN 144 c AIR FRANCE / RÉSEAU AÉRIEN MONDIAL. Circa 1930s. 39 1 / 4 x24 1 / 4 inches, 99 3 / 4 x61 1 / 2 cm. E. Girard, Paris. Condition B+ / B: tears and repaired tears at edges; water staining in left margin, into image; creases in margins and image. [500/750] LUCIEN BOUCHER (1889-1971) 145 c AIR FRANCE / “NOVA ET VETERA.” 1939. 24 3 / 4 x38 3 / 4 inches, 63x98 1 / 2 cm. Perceval, Paris. Condition B+: replaced upper and right margins; repaired tears, creases and overpainting in margins; creases and restoration in margins and image. Air France began using planispheres in their posters as early as 1933. “Lucien Boucher became the ‘Mr. Planisphere’ of Air France, making a large number of them between 1934 and 1962. Until this point, posters sold either a destination (Africa, the Orient, Europe) or a product (the Air France company). Then they became works of art that, incidentally, showed that the French network covered the world” (Air France p. 91). Air France p. 90. [700/1,000] 144