Oct 26, 2017 - Sale 2459

Sale 2459 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
PIERRE COMMARMOND (1897-1983) LA ROUTE DES PYRÉNÉES / LA COTE VERMEILLE. Circa 1930.
41 1/4x29 1/2 inches, 104 3/4x75 cm. Lucien Serre & Cie, Paris.
Condition A-: repaired tears, creases and abrasions in margins; repaired pin holes in corners; punch holes in right margin.
Considered one of the masters of the tourist poster, he was a painter as well as a poster designer and expressed in his creations a great concern for topographical exactitude and handled the gouache, his technique of predilection, with mastery. His landscapes are superb without being grandiloquent" (Pyrenees p. 156-7). Pyrenees p. 112.