RARE & IMPORTANT
TRAVEL POSTERS
Public Auction Sale 2360 October 14, 2014 1:30 p.m.
DESCRIPTIONS
For an explanation of how the posters are described and a guide to the symbols used, please refer
to the section “Supplemental advice” which appears at the beginning of the catalogue.
S. BESSE (DATES UNKNOWN)
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LE SUD ALGÉRIEN / NUIT SAHARIENNE. Circa 1930.
39
1
/
2
x24
1
/
4
inches, 100
1
/
4
x61
1
/
2
cm. Bacconnier, Alger.
Condition A / A-: repaired tears at edges; creases and abrasions in image.
A moody and evocative scene of a man and his camel watching a train pass by an oasis at night. A sense
of serenity pervades this image of the “Saharan Night,” courtesy of the Algerian train service through
the desert.
[1,200/1,800]
EUGENE DESHAYES (1868-1939)
3
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LE SUD ALGÉRIEN / TEMACINE - TOUGGOURT. 1925.
40
3
/
4
x29
1
/
2
inches, 103
1
/
2
x75 cm. Bacconnier, Alger.
Condition B+: repaired tears, creases and restoration in margins; creases and abrasions in image.
Algerian-born Deshayes studied art in Paris and is most highly regarded for his North African
landscape paintings. This is his only poster. Orientalist p. 49.
[800/1,200]
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