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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BERNARD VILLEMOT (1911-1989) AIR AFRIQUE. 1966. 39x24 1/8 inches, 99x61 cm. Serma, Paris. Condition B+: repaired tears in margins, one affecting image; creases in image. Air Afrique had a forty year history, from 1961 to 2001. The company was originally a multi-way joint venture between Air France, UAT (Union Aéromaritime de Transport) and eleven former French colonies in West Africa that were all newly independent nations. For this poster, Villemot provides the viewer with an animal as colorful and exotic as the subcontinent itself. Villemot 203.
