Air France, Europe, 1956A CHARMING original vintage poster by Jean Carlu (1900 97) for Air France, dating from 1957. Size 100cm x 62cm Condition Good. Small piece torn off top left border. If you would like to know more please get in touch. Background Carlu, who was the airlines artistic director, has created a poster of posters for landmarks and regional emblems, with a smiling bill poster at work atop his ladder putting up another. Printed by Imp S. A. Courbet, Paris.

It made its last voyage in 1975

Zeltinger Himmelreich is the local Reisling wine

The photograph shows the Dent du Requin with the Tacul Glacier behind it and Mont Blanc du Tacul beyond

Background  Solon (1897-1973) was a prominent poster artist from the 1930s onward who also worked for Air France

The historic city of York was an important tourist destination in the LNER network and Taylor created a number of posters of it

There is some wear on the bottom right margin and a 2cm tear at the top in the middle

The picture shows one of three spectacular arches at the resort of Étretat

Two tears without paper loss on the dark top area have been fully repaired

des Transports et due Tourisme

Printer Beuchet et Vanden Brugge

104cm x 66cm

with the address of the car showroom in the city of Wiesbaden (today a car repair business)