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Messageries Maritimes (large) (circa 1950)
Albert Brenet (1903-2005)
Printed by Relief, Paris
Offset Lithograph
63cm x 100cm
circa 1950
Grade: A, Excellent. Linenbacked, restored pinholes.
T1130
Early 1950's poster issued by Messageries Maritimes promoting the company's routes to all parts of the world (Japon, Australie, Atlantique, Mer du Nord, Afrique du Sud). Evocative design with an image of a Hong Kong sampan girl and several Hong Kong style Chinese junks helping to unload the cargo from the large Messageries Maritimes ship.
This is the larger, full sheet format poster. We also have the quarter sheet variant of this in the exhibition.
