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JACQUES DAVIAL DE LA NÉZIÈRE (DATES UNKNOWN) SIMPLON-ORIENT-EXPRESS. 1927. 41x30 inches, 105x76 cm. Lucien Serre & Cie., Paris. Condition A / A-: repaired tear and printers creases in image. Framed. "The Simplon Orient Express belonged to the Compagnie des Wagons Lits and carried passengers from Calais, Ostend and Paris to Bucharest and Istanbul via Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria" (Orientalist p. 40). Elegant and exotic, the train route quite literally connected East and West. One of the stops was in Aleppo, Syria, which vies with her neighbor Damascus for the privilege of being the oldest inhabited city in the world. Pictured here is the 13th-century Citadel. "Jacques de la Nézière was a painter and a great traveler. His frequent visits to North Africa provided him with material for a number of posters and he was artistic director for the Moroccan section at the Exposition Coloniale de Marseille in 1922" (ibid). Wagons-Lits 142, Orientalist p. 40.
