ORIGINAL Vintage Travel Poster INDIA Orient AUSTRALIA South Africa ALBERT BRENET

Description

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, ORIENT
1950's
ARTIST:
ALBERT BRENET
Description:
The Messageries Maritimes was a French merchant shipping company. It was originally created in 1851 as Messageries Nationales, later called Messageries Impériales, and from 1871, Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, casually known as "MesMar" or by its initials "MM". Its rectangular house flag, with the letters MM on a white background and red corners, was famous in shipping circles, especially on the Europe-Asia trade lanes . In 1977 it merged with Compagnie Générale Transatlantique to form the Compagnie Générale Maritime.
Levant = Eastern Mediterranean
Ocean Indien = Indian Ocean
Extreme Orient = Far East
Oceanie Australie = Oceania Australia
Afrique du Sud = South Africa
Margin Text (Printing Company):
"IMPRIMÉ EN FRANCE"
"IMP. PAUL DUPONT - CLICHY"
Artist:
ALBERT BRENET (1903-2005)
Brenet was a painter, poster artist and illustrator. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1920, but it was his seven months journey on one of the last three trading sailings from Le Havre on the Bonchamp to the West Indies, which was decisive for his painting career. He traveled the world's oceans on different ships making sketches, that, -once back home- were transferred to canvas.
Albert Brenet was appointed Navy painter in 1936. Together with Marin-Marie, Roger Rosary and Mathurin Méheut , he is considered one of the great French marine painters of the twentieth century.
Condition and dimensions:
In good condition.
Edge wear, pin hole damage, one professionally repaired tear and small paper loss (please review detailed images).
Poster: 25 X 40 Inches (63.5 X 101.6 cm)
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