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PIERRE FIX-MASSEAU (1905-1994) CÔTE D'AZUR. 1929. 38 3/4x24 inches, 98 1/2x61 cm. L. Danel, Lille. Condition B+: repaired tears, creases, wrinkles and restoration in margins and image; restored punch-holes in corners. Framed. Fix-Masseau worked as assistant in Cassandre's studio at the end of the 1920s. For this Art Deco masterpiece, one of the classic Art Deco train images, Fix-Masseau borrows liberally from the work of Cassandre. With text displaced around the outside of the image, and a tiny distant focal point, from which both the train and the tracks are emerging, one is instantly remind of Cassandre's Nord Express. Yet, in a noticeable break from Cassandre's concept, Fix-Masseau's image has the train rushing towards the viewer, not away, and the mountains alongside the train echo the wafting smoke from the locomotive's funnel. In 1932 Fix-Masseau designed another pillar in the Pantheon of Art Deco travel posters when he depicted the on-time arrival of a similar engine pulling into a station under the heading Exactitude. Azur 14, Le Train 268, Golden Age 132.
