Maps

Artist / Author / Cartographer:

Boucher, Lucien

Title:

World -- Air France World Map

Date:

1937

Medium:

lithograph printed in colour

Size:

61 x 97 cm

Description:

A magnificent Art Deco style map of the world showing the airline routes of Air France in 1930s. By 1939 the sector to Hong Kong had opened. The map was drawn by the French artist Lucien Boucher and it was printed by Perceval in Paris.

 

The French artist, Lucien Boucher has again created another graphic masterpiece to fire the imagination.

 

Boucher was born in Chartres in 1889. He was an engraver and illustrator who specialised in illustrating books and making posters. He worked in Paris.

 

Framed.

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Item Code:

MA8222

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