Nov 10, 2008 - Sale 2161

Sale 2161 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
ROGER BRODERS (1883-1953) GOLF DE LA SOUKRA TUNIS. 1932.
40x24 3/4 inches, 101 1/2x63 cm. Imprimerie de Vaugirard, Paris.
Condition A-: minor repaired tears and abrasions at edges. Linen backed, mounted on board.
A joint effort between the French Railway and the Tunisian Tourist Authority to lure French golfers to the "bigger fields and vast open spaces" (Orientalist p. 69) of Tunisia. Here, a local caddy wearing a fez is standing in the shade watching the progress of a round of golf, with the Mediterranean in the distance. Broders p. 111, Perry / Broders p. 89, Orientalist p. 83.