OFFREZ LES TABACS DE LA RÉGIE FRANÇAISE. Circa 1930.
62x44 1/4 inches, 157 1/2x112 1/4 cm. Bedos & Cie., Paris. Condition B: large replaced loss in lower right corner, including image and overpainted text; repaired tears, creases and restoration at edges and along vertical and horizontal folds.
In this Art Deco poster, "SEITA promotes French-made smokes en masse, advertising their output with three oversized cigars thrusting diagonally skyward and an open flip-top package of cigarettes alongside them" (Crouse p. 220). Real, a largely unknown artist of only a couple of posters, designed this effective image in the vein of Loupot and Cassandre. Rare. Crouse p. 220.
