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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
HARALD (DATES UNKNOWN)
GRANDE SEMAINE D'AVIATION D'ÉGYPTE / HÉLIOPOLIS. 1910.
47x62 1/2 inches, 119 1/4x158 3/4 cm. Atelier Harald, Paris. Condition B / B-: extensive repaired tears, losses, creases, abrasions and restoration in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; tape stains and flaking in margins. Mounted on Chartex.
For an air show on the outskirts of Cairo, the artist captures both the climate and geography of the location as well as the spectacle of the event. "The evocative poster created for this occasion . . . poignantly contrasts the new and the old. As the latest scientific marvel of a half-dozen fabulous flying machines maneuver in the sky, a Bedouin on his camel shades his eyes and gazes across the sun-drenched landscape of pyramids" (Looping the Loop p. 54). L'Histoire de l'Aviation p. 31, Looping the Loop 33.
