Oct 14, 2014 - Sale 2360

Sale 2360 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
ROGER BRODERS (1883-1953) WINTER SPORTS IN THE VOSGES. Circa 1930.
39 1/4x24 1/2 inches, 99 1/2x62 cm. Lucien Serre, Paris.
Condition A-: repaired tears and restoration at edges, some affecting image; minor creases and abrasions in margins and image.
One of Broders' rarest ski posters for this region in northeast France, of "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 English version. Broders p. 47, Perry / Broders p. 74, Art of Skiing p. 59, Hillion p. 125, Le Train p. 57.