?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
LUCIEN BOUCHER (1889-1971)
AIR FRANCE. 1950.
25 1/4x38 1/4 inches, 64x97 1/4 cm. Perceval, Paris. Condition B+: overpainting in upper right margin and border; minor restoration in bottom right corner; tear at bottom left margin; minor creases in margins.
Air France began using planispheres in their posters as early as 1933. "Lucien Boucher became the 'Mr. Planisphere' of Air France, making a large number of them between 1934 and 1962. Until this point, posters sold either a destination (Africa, the Orient, Europe) or a product (the Air France company). Then they became works of art that, incidentally, showed that the French network covered the world" (Air France p. 91).
