?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
PAUL COLIN (1892-1986)
CIE GLE TRANSATLANTIQUE / FRENCH LINE. 1949.
39 1/4x24 1/2 inches, 99 1/2x62 1/4 cm. Imprimerie Transatlantique. Condition A-: small repaired tears at edges; minor creases and abrasions at edges and in image.
"Faced with competition from the airlines, Paul Colin extols the steamship voyages for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, the 'French Line,' emphasizing the well-being, luxury and sense of adventure that you can experience on a transatlantic liner" (Colin p. 132). During the golden era of travel in the 1920s and 1930s, Colin designed few, if any, travel posters. In the post-war years he designed three posters for the French shipping company (the others in 1952 and 1955). Weallans p. 179, Paul Colin 101, Colin 187, La Mer p. 248.
