?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
CHARLES RAMBERT (1867-1932) GRANDE SEMAINE D'AVIATION. 1910. 51x36 inches, 129 1/2x91 1/2 cm. Girieud, Rouen. Condition B+: repaired tears, creases and losses in margins. "Rouen was one of the most successful of the early [aviation] meets . . . the beauty, originality, and sly humor of the artist's design [make] it a memorable work of art. Flying past the spires of the cathedral, then under repair, the pilot of a sprightly though improbable-looking monoplane cheerfully salutes two ecclesiastical statues in a niche who throw up their hands in amazement at the miracle of human flight." (Looping the Loop p. 59). Looping the Loop pl. 37.
