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F. HUGO D'ALÉSI (1849-1906) NICE. 1895. 42 1/2x30 3/4 inches, 108x78 cm. F. Hugo d'Alési, Paris. Condition A-: minor tears, light time-staining and creases at edges; punch holes in side margins; horizontal fold. Paper. Roumanian-born Hugo d'Alési was one of the earliest artists to design posters for the French railway companies. They were printed using a process similar to chromolithography called simile-aquarelle (literally, faux watercolor), that required up to 20 different colors to render the final image, making them much more richly printed, detailed and painterly than the travel posters from subsequent decades. Riviera 418, Azur 43, La Mer p. 48, Stembera p. 16.
