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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
RENE HERMANN-PAUL (1864-1940) AERODROME DE CANNES. 1909. 46x29 inches, 118x75 cm. Wall, Paris. Condition B+: repaired tears, restoration, overpainting and airbrushing in margins and image. Count Charles graaf de Lambert was one of the first people Wilbur Wright taught to fly and the eighth person in France to receive a flying license from the government. In 1909, he opened a flying school in Cannes, where he operated a Wright biplane. This poster offers the elite public vacationing on the French Riviera a chance to experience flying for themselves via classes and excursions, but ultimately aimed to gain the exposure necessary to sell more airplanes. The poster is not only an exceptional and rare early aviation image, but also an important historical document from the infancy of the aviation industry. l'Histoire de l'Aviation p. 47, FAI 57, Riviera 458.
