May 13, 2013 - Sale 2314

Sale 2314 - Lot 229

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BERNARD VILLEMOT (1911-1989) INDIA / EASTER - EPICUREAN / AIR FRANCE. 1956.
39 1/4x24 1/4 inches, 99 3/4x61 1/2 cm. S.A. Courbet, Paris.
Condition B+ / A-: tears at edges; creases in margins and image. Paper.
This poster "compels recognition as a masterly poster through the impression it gives, a fairy-like impression of arrested motion, of life frozen, which only awaits one thing - that you, passing by, board the immobile airplane" (Air France p. 108). This is the English version. Villemot 121 (var), Air France p. 109 (var), 1000 Posters 463 (var).