ALDOLPHE MOURON CASSANDRE (1901-1968) NORD EXPRESS. 1927. 41 1/4x29 1/2 inches, 105x50 1/2 cm. Hachard & Cie., Paris. Condition B+: repaired tears, creases, restoration and discoloration in margins and image. In 1927 Cassandre produced two posters for the Chemins de Fer du Nord (the other is the Etoile du Nord), each of which is an Art Deco masterpiece. This stylized locomotive is a graphic glorification of the Machine Age and is rendered in architecturally precise geometric shapes and white lines. The design is made even more impressive by its perspective: seen from track level, the locomotive appears all the more massive and powerful, its great speed emphasized by the dramatic way that it disappears into the horizon (a horizon ingeniously brought even closer by the telegraph wires, which also quickly disappear). Mouron / Cassandre pl. 10, Weill / Cassandre pl. 13, Suntory 49, p. 73, Reina Sophia p. 159.
