Apr 21, 2005 - Sale 2039

Sale 2039 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 1,610
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
FRANCIS BERNARD (1900-1979) C. F. A.
31x21 inches. Paul Martial, Paris.
Condition B+: repaired tears and creases in margins; vertical and horizontal folds.
Previously unrecorded, this exceptional poster (for a brand of steering wheels) highlights Bernard's impeccable design sensibilities. The suggestion of a road is implied by two lightly-airbrushed lines receding into the distance, and an oversized roadside sign indicates bumps ahead. Superimposed over this evocative driving still life is an image of a steering wheel.