?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
LUCIEN BOUCHER (1889-1971)
AIR FRANCE RÉSEAU AÉRIEN MONDIAL. 1939.
25x40 inches, 63½x101½ cm. Perceval, Paris. Condition A-: small repaired tears at edges; creases and minor abrasions 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).
