Aug 06, 2014 - Sale 2356

Sale 2356 - Lot 436

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ROGER BRODERS (1883-1953) GRENOBLE / EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE HOUILLE BLANCHE & TOURISME. 1925.
42x31 inches, 106 3/4x78 3/4 cm. Lucien Serre, Paris.
Condition B+: creases and restoration in margins and image.
The International Exhibition of White Coal and Tourism was held in Grenoble in 1925. "White Coal" was a term given to clean hydro-electric power, in contrast to power produced by burning black coal. The PLM added additional trains to accommodate visitors to the fair, over one million of whom visited during the course of the event. Broders p. 59B, Perry / Broders p. 43.