Aug 08, 2024 - Sale 2676

Sale 2676 - Lot 201

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

CUCHETTO (DATES UNKNOWN)

COSTES ET L'ATLANTIQUE. 1930.


63x47 inches, 160x119½ cm. Baudin, Paris.
Condition B+: minor creases, abrasions and restoration at edges and along vertical and horizontal folds; discolored overpainting at folds; reds attenuated; handwritten pencil notes in lower left margin.

"In September 1930, Dieudonné Costes, French World War I ace and pilot with six world records to his credit, successfully spanned the Atlantic with his navigator, Maurice Bellonte in their plane 'The Question Mark.' The non-stop flight took 37 hours through some difficult weather, but when they finally landed in New York, Lindbergh was at the airfield along with a crowd of 10,000 people to welcome the Frenchmen to America" (http://www.aviationposters.org/pages/00184.html).