Aug 06, 2014 - Sale 2356

Sale 2356 - Lot 347

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
ROGER BRODERS (1883-1953) SUR LA COTE D'AZUR. Circa 1931.
39 3/4x24 1/2 inches, 101x62 1/4 cm. Lucien Serre, Paris.
Condition B+: repaired tears and minor creasing at edges; abrasions in image.
This poster has been cited as a classic example of shifting social mores, as well as a shift in the design of travel posters themselves, in that the traditional "aristocratic or upper middle class woman in a long crinoline dress who is carrying an umbrella in hand to protect herself from the sun [who was depicted in many turn-of-the-century travel posters], gives way to a young, buxom sun worshipper" (Azur p. 19). In 1933, this image was used by the PLM on the cover of a travel brochure (see www.travelbrochuregraphics.com). Broders p. 90, Perry / Broders p. 29, Le Train p. 102, Azur cover and 11, Golden Age p. 109.