Nov 11, 2005 - Sale 2056

Sale 2056 - Lot 120

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ROGER BRODERS LE TOUR DU CAP CORSE. 1923.
421/2x301/2 inches. Cornille & Serre, Paris.
Condition B+: tears, losses and tattering at edges. Paper.
One of Broder's earlier travel posters, as he started designing them in earnest in 1922. Here, promoting excursion by car through Corsica, Broders employs his effective, distinctive, formulaic approach to design. He uses three distinct graphic areas to create a formidable sense of depth perception: The foreground, generally depicted in darker hues, "which serves to enhance and draw the attention of the viewer to the center," where Broders depicts a town or a village. "The background . . . represents the mountains, which draws upwards the gaze of the viewer" (Perry / Broders p.11).