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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
VINCENT GUERRA (DATES UNKNOWN) AIR FRANCE / AFRIQUE OCCIDENTALE. 1948. 38 3/4x24 inches, 98 1/2x61 cm. Alepee et Cie, Paris. Condition A- / B+: creases in margins; creases and restoration along horizontal fold. This poster was originally issued in 1946. Although drawn by the artist from photographs, "unfortunately he had used photographs of Asian elephants . . . and their morphology is distinctly different from that of African elephants, and notably the ears, which are shorter" (Air France p. 130). In 1948, the artist corrected the image and the poster was reissued, "giving the African pachyderms earlobes worthy of their breed" (ibid). Air France p. 131, L'Histoire de l'Aviation p. 152, Plus Haut p. 169.
