Oct 18, 2013 - Sale 2326

Sale 2326 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
H. CHAUFFARD (DATES UNKNOWN) VICHY. Circa 1935.
39 3/4x24 3/4 inches, 101x63 cm. Lucien Serre, Paris.
Condition B+: creases and abrasions in margins and image.
Although this is one of the classic Art Deco French travel posters, the artist has remained virtually anonymous. The design is as stylized and elegant as the scene it portrays in which rows of trees, seen in perspective, form a large "V" that focuses the viewer's attention on the spa's casino in the distance. Some copies exist with the blank space within the "V" filled in with text. Hillion p. 104, Zagrodzki 251.