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HENRI CASSIERS (1858-1944) RED STAR LINE / NEW YORK - ANTWERP. 1899. 32x44 1/2 inches, 82x113 cm. Sackell & Wilhelms Litho & Ptg. Co., New York. Condition B+: repaired tears and minor restored losses in margins; restoration in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds. The Red Star Line, an American-Belgian company founded in 1871 in Philadelphia, had become the third largest transatlantic passenger carrier by 1906. Cassiers worked for the company for 25 years, designing their posters, postcards and menus. This poster exists in several variants, one advertising travel in the reverse direction ("Antwerpen-Amerika") and another variant being identical except for the ship, which is a three-funnel vessel instead of only two. The "ship-spotters" here are women and children, dressed in the ethnic finery of Flanders. As in all of Cassiers' posters, the drawing is clean and precise and the colors are flat and bright. Cassiers 70, Belgique p. 49.
