VINCENT GUERRA (DATES UNKNOWN) [AIR FRANCE] / WEST AFRICA. 1946.
39 1/4x24 1/4 inches, 99 1/2x61 1/2 cm. Alepee & Cie., Paris.
Condition A-: minor creases, tears and light time-staining at edges. Paper.
This is the rare first version of the poster. 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). This is the English version. Air France 70.