HENRI CASSIERS RED STAR LINE / ANTWERPEN AMERIKA. 1899.

44 3/4x61 inches. O. De Rycker, Brussels.
Condition B: restored losses and restoration in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds; repaired tears and creases in margins and image.
The Red Star Line, an American-Belgian company founded in 1871 in Philadelphia, had become the third largest transatlantic passenger carrier by 1906. Cassiers worked for the company for 25 years, designing their posters, postcards and menus. This poster exists in several variants, one bearing separate text "Antwerpen - New York" and the other being identical except for the ship, which is a three funnel vessel instead of only two! His "ship-spotters" here are women and children, dressed in the ethnic finery of Flanders (in other posters he depicts Flemish fishermen), but as in all his posters, the drawing is clean and precise and the colors are flat and bright. Cassiers 70, Belgique p. 49.