?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ROGER BRODERS (1883-1953)
VILLEFRANCHE S MER / PORT DE TOURISME. Circa 1929.
40x24¾ inches, 101½x62¾ cm. Lucien Serre, Paris. Condition A: minor creases and abrasions in margins and image.
"Villefranche is a privileged stopover for cruise ships coming to anchor in the harbor that drop their passengers on land for a sightseeing tour . . . Broders illustrates this new tourism by a large ship pointing its bow towards [shore]. The docks are home to traditional fishing boats, tartans and feluccas, and luxury yachts belonging to a privileged few aristocrats and millionaires" (Azur p. 154). This poster also exists without the PLM logo in the upper right corner, presumably printed for the local tourist office.
Broders p. 93A, Perry / Broders p. 35, Riviera 83, Le Train p. 138, Azur 179.
