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ADOLPHE MOURON CASSANDRE (1901-1968) LYS CHANTILLY. 1930. 39 1/4x24 1/2 inches, 99 3/4x62 1/4 cm. L. Danel, Lille. Condition B+ / B: restoration along repaired tear through top margin into image; creases and abrasions in margins and image. This is one of Cassandre's most daring posters, bordering on abstraction. The Lys Chantilly was a large real estate project in the Chantilly forest north of Paris. One must assume that the railroad company was somehow involved in the project, which would explain their commission of this poster. As early as 1925, Roger Broders designed a poster promoting the same area, using his classic illustrative style. Cassandre takes an opposite graphic approach. The poster is a massive splash of green, a near impenetrable forest, where, through an opening in the "leaves," one can view a tri-color cubist abstraction of a house. With no details about prices, availability or anything else, the approach is completely symbolic. The poster is rather unique within Cassandre's oeuvre in that it is more like an oil painting than a graphic design. Mouron 109, p. 67, Suntory 59, p. 83, Reina Sofia p. 163, Word & Image p. 82.
