Original Air France Poster, Amerique du Nord, North America
- 1946
- Guy Arnoux
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24 x 39 inches ~ (60 x 99 cm)$4,500
- Linen backed
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself.
The price of this poster includes linen backing.
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One of the rarest and most desirable of Air France posters.
Printed by Hubert Baille & Cie. Paris
An optimistic post-war image depicting North America as the proverbial "City in the Clouds.” Interesting subtle use of stars and stripes and a Lockheed Constellation soaring across the sky. Guy Arnoux was a prolific book illustrator. The few posters he designed generally fall into one of two styles: images d'epinal, naive, traditionalist woodcuts focusing only on a subject's positive qualities, and this, a more Modernist, Art Deco style. Air France p. 72.
