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Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
ROGER BRODERS (1883-1953) ANTIBES. Circa 1928. 42 1/2x31 inches, 108x78 3/4 cm. Lucien Serre, Paris. Condition A / A-: punch holes in right margin; soft creases in margins and image. This image, evokesing the stylish, languid reminiscences of an F. Scott Fitzgerald story, is an uncanny example of art imitating life, imitating art. Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, stayed in this Riviera town in 1926, and it was during his time there that he began writing his novel, Tender is the Night. This poster has never been definitively dated, and is usually cited as circa 1927, but the stylistic rendering of the main figures is too sophisticated to have been so early. A visual chronology of Broders' works shows that he began to master the use of diffident characters with elongated bodies in 1928. This poster also appears with a square version of the PLM logo, as well as entirely without a logo. Broders p. 91, Perry / Broders p. 27, Riviera 60, La Mer p. 116, Azur 144.
