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Air France – India
Artist: Bernard Villemot
Year: 1956
Size: 99.5 x 61.5 cm / 39.2 x 24.2″
About this poster
A cute and most curious image for the French airline company Air France. Bernard Villemot captures the oriental style with the black background and soft coulouring typical for India. The effectiveness of the poster, as expected from Villemot lies in the refined humour of putting an airplane in the background of the image which is out of place in an Indian landscape. A very rare and stupendous poster of 1956.
Artist: Bernard Villemot
Bernard Villemot (1911-1989) was the son of the well-known cartoonist and humorist Jean Villemot, and a close friend of Raymond Savignac. Villemot produced government and political posters during the war years. Beginning in the late 1940s, he began designing commercial posters and became one of the most important graphic designers after the Second World War. His work for Bally, Perrier, Air France and Orangina hav... more
Bernard Villemot (1911-1989) was the son of the well-known cartoonist and humorist Jean Villemot, and a close friend of Raymond Savignac. Villemot produced g ...
Poster details
- Poster No.: 1929
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- Company: Air France, Paris, France
- Printer: Imprimerie SA Courbet Paris
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- Size: 99.5 x 61.5 cm / 39.2 x 24.2″
- Printing technique:Lithograph in colours
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Excellent. Picture preserved completely. Wrinkles and small tears, if any, restricted to edges. Mounted on acid-free linen. - Category:
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