May 07, 2015 - Sale 2382

Sale 2382 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
PAUL COLIN (1892-1986) 18ÈME SALON INTERNATIONAL DE L'AVIATION. 1949.
23 1/4x15 1/2 inches, 59x39 1/2 cm. Bedos & Cie., Paris.
Condition B: repaired tears and restored losses at edges, some affecting image; restoration and overpainting in margins and image.
To promote this International Aviation show, Colin depicts a jet plane flying concentric circles around a globe, seen through parting clouds. Colin also designed the poster for the same event in 1948, but the airship depicted then was a propeller plane, indicating the important step in technology which had occurred during the intervening year. Colin 144.