Mar 16, 2017 - Sale 2439

Sale 2439 - Lot 8

Unsold
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
ROGER BRODERS (1883-1953) SPORTS D'HIVER DANS LES VOSGES. Circa 1930.
39 1/4x24 1/2 inches, 99 1/2x62 cm. Lucien Serre, Paris.
Condition B: extensive repaired tears in margins and image; restored losses, creases, abrasions and overpainting in margins and image; minor staining in image.
One of Broders' rarest ski posters for this area in Northeast France, "one of the highest and most celebrated summits in the Vosges, [which] at the beginning of the century. . . attracted some of the first skiers" (Hillion p. 125). This is the French version. Broders p. 47, Perry / Broders p. 74, Art of Skiing p. 59, Hillion p. 125, Affiches Chemin de Fer p. 57.