Mar 01, 2018 - Sale 2467

Sale 2467 - Lot 269

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
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: repaired tears and overpainting in margins and image; small loss along tear in upper right image; minor foxing in image.
One of Broders' rarest ski posters, this image advertises an area in Northeast France with "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.