Feb 07, 2002 - Sale 1924

Sale 1924 - Lot 474

Price Realized: $ 5,290
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
WINTER SPORTS IN THE VOSGES. Circa 1930.
39 1/4x24 3/4 inches. Lucien Serre, Paris.
Condition B+: restoration, overpainting and pinholes in margins; creases, repaired tears and restoration in image.
One of Broder's rarest ski posters for the area in the North East of France, for "one of the highest and most celebrated summits in the Vosges, [which] at the begining of the century. . . attracted some of the first skiers" (Hillion p. 125). This is the very scarce English version. Broders p. 47, Hillion p. 131.