Aug 05, 2015 - Sale 2389

Sale 2389 - Lot 580

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
PIERRE COMMARMOND (1897-1983) BRIGHTON. Circa 1921.
39x24 1/2 inches, 99x62 1/2 cm. Lucien Serre & Co., Paris.
Condition B+: repaired tears, creases, abrasions and restoration in margins and image.
Commarmond was a painter who is best remembered for his plethora of colorful, gently stylized travel posters designed for the French railways in the 1920s and 30s. His combination of realistic detail, graphic embellishment and bright palette help place his work on par with that of Roger Broders and Roger Soubie. This is one of the few images he designed with a central human figure, and one of the very few French posters advertising travel to Britain.