Jan 30, 2003 - Sale 1958

Sale 1958 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 6,900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
A. SOREL GRANDE QUINZAINE DE PARIS A PORT-AVIATION. 1909.
31x46 1/2 inches. Societe Generale d'Impression, Paris.
Condition B+: restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; minor restoration in margins.
A whimsical image for a two-week air show in Paris in which a woman is being hospitably welcomed aboard a plane, mid-flight, off of a red pole; against a yellow background. Below the grandstands are filled with Parisians enjoying the flying of several planes already in the air; lettering in red and green. Not in Villard/Allen.