May 09 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2668 -

Sale 2668 - Lot 161

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

ROGER SOUBIE (1898-1984)

CHAMONIX - MONT BLANC. 1924.

42x30¼ inches, 106¾x77½ cm. Lucien Serre, Paris.
Condition A.

In 1924, the 8th Olympic games were held in Chamonix. One year later, "these successful Games were retrospectively recognized" by the International Olympic Committee "as the first Olympic Winter Games" (Olympics p. 35). The decision to hold these winter games came in 1921 and "triggered a period of frenzied construction as rail and road links and hotel development opened up the area to international tourism" (Olympics p. 33). This is one of five "official" posters for these winter games, all of which were published by the PLM Railway rather than the Olympic Committee. They were all issued with text variants, sometimes promoting the Olympic Games and sometimes just promoting winter activities in the area. Hillion p. 195 (var), Alpi / Manifesti 110 (var).
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