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Normandie: Cie Gle. transatlantique, French Line – Antique Wall Art

Normandie: Cie Gle. transatlantique, French Line, Paris : Alliance Graphique, 1935. — vintage poster
Normandie: Cie Gle. transatlantique, French Line, Paris : Alliance Graphique, 1935.. Vintage poster from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few ocean liners of the 1930s drew as much attention as the SS Normandie, the French Line flagship whose maiden voyage came in 1935. This poster promotes that ship for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique and was printed in Paris that year by Alliance Graphique. It is signed "A.M.," the pseudonym of Adolphe Mouron, better known as Cassandre, one of the most influential poster designers of the period. His bold geometric shapes and streamlined forms capture the Art Deco modernism that the Normandie itself was built to express.

Created / publishedParis : Alliance Graphique, 1935.
Medium1 print (poster) : color ; 100 x 62 cm.
SubjectsColor poster by Adolphe Edouard Mouron, 1901- . Signed with the artist's pseud.: A.M. Cassandre. Promotional goal: Fr. E6. 1935. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Compagnie générale transatlantique. II. Title. Steamships; Ships--SS NORMANDIE.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan957 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176248

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