Oct 26, 2017 - Sale 2459

Sale 2459 - Lot 145

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
LUCIEN BOUCHER (1889-1971) AIR FRANCE / "NOVA ET VETERA." 1939.
24 3/4x38 3/4 inches, 63x98 1/2 cm. Perceval, Paris.
Condition B+: replaced upper and right margins; repaired tears, creases and overpainting in margins; creases and restoration in margins and image.
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). Air France p. 90.