Nov 19, 2015 - Sale 2399

Sale 2399 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 2,860
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JOSEPH-HENRI PONCHIN (1897-1962) L'INDOCHINE FRANÇAISE / TONKIN. 1931.
44x30 1/2 inches, 111 3/4x77 cm. D'Extrême-Orient, Hanoi.
Condition B+: restored loss in upper left corner; repaired tears and restoration at edges and in image.
Printed in Hanoi during the height of French colonialism, this poster is one in an exceptional series of Art Deco travel posters for Indochina designed by Ponchin. The French took control of Indochina (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) in 1863 and effectively stayed in power until 1953. Suez p. 106.