Chamonix Mt Blanc/Tous Les Sports d'Hiver
Artist
Roger Broders
1883 - 1953
Printer
Imp. Lucien Serre & Cie Paris
France
Date1930
Dimensions38 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. (98.4 x 62.2 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Peter A. Blatz
Object numberPH.278
DescriptionThis is one of a large number of posters commissioned from Roger Broders by the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranée (PLM) Railway of France to promote national tourism. Broders, a French artist and illustrator, is best known for the designs he made for PLM, advertising destinations along its route in the French Alps (as here) and the Côte d’Azur; PLM even paid for him to go to the locations he was hired to represent. In this Art Deco composition, showing a game from the 1930 Ice Hockey Championships, Broders’s sophisticated use of perspective, with the players in the foreground set against the Olympic Stadium and mountains of Chamonix, creates both a vivid sense of the sporting action and an almost decorative semi-abstract composition of shapes and colors.On View
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