Nov 14, 2019 - Sale 2524

Sale 2524 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ROGER BRODERS (1883-1953) GOLF DE LA SOUKRA TUNIS. 1932.
39x24 3/4 inches, 99x63 cm. Vaugirard, Paris.
Condition A-: some reds faded.
A joint effort between the French Railway and the Tunisian Tourist Authority to lure French golfers to the "bigger fields and vast open spaces" of Tunisia (Orientalist p. 69). Here, a local caddy wearing a fez, stands in the shade watching the progress of a round of golf with the Mediterranean in the distance. Broders p. 111, Perry / Broders p. 89, Golf p. 25, Orientalist p. 83, Tourism 145.