Friday 30 December 2022

French Travel Posters - part 3

During the second half of the 19th century, the development of transportation enabled a strong increase in tourism in Europe. Timetables decorated with small black and white engravings were displayed in railway stations.

As early as 1890, the railway companies put up the first real travel posters, inviting travellers to visit historical sites and bucolic landscapes.

Hugo d’Alési was the most prolific creator of travel posters during the Belle Epoque. Working in a similar style, Henri Tanconville also designed a series of travel posters.

At the turn of the century, a different approach to travel posters emerged - from then on, a single image with shorter text became the norm.

From the 1920s. Poster artists abandoned the romanticism and arabesques of the Art Nouveau style in favour of geometric and monumental forms borrowed from Cubism and Futurism and embraced the Art Deco style.


For earlier works see parts 1 & 2 also.

This is part 3 of a 7-part series on French Travel Posters:


c1930 Senlis
Chemin De Fer Du Nord
artist: Charles Hallo

1930s Evian Les Bains PLM
artist: Georges François

1931 Salies de Béarn
Station Thermale et Touristique
artist: René Roussel

1932 Auvergne
Chatel-Guyon
artist: Robert Falcucci

1932 Golf de la Soukra Tunis PLM
artist: Roger Broders

1934 Aix-les-Bains, Savoie
Guérit le Rhumatisme
artist: Lajos Marton

1934 Cote d'Azur PLM
artist: Munetsugu Satomi

1934 Le Telepherique
de Veyrier-du-Lac, d'Annecy
  artist: Henry Reb

1934c Villard de Lans, Dauphiné,
Le Paradis des Enfants
artist: Roger Broders

1935 Annecy Sa Plage
artist: Robert Falcucci 

1935 La Provence Romaine
Berceau de la Culture Française
artist: Lajos Marton

1935 Normandie 
Cie. Gle. Transatlantique
artist: A.M. Cassandre

c1935 Boulogne sur Mer
Chemin de Fer du Nord
artist: Edmond Maurus

c1935 Lys-Chantilly.
Plage Boran sur Oise
artist: Robert Fallot

c1935 Paris
artist: Robert Falcucci

c1935 Pau
 s'on Climat...ses Sports, France
artist: Georges Reben

1936 Air France
Flèche d'Orient
artist: Paolo Frederico Garretto

1936 Champagne
artist: A. Moluggon

c1936 téléférique du Mt d'Arbois, Megève
artist: Karl Machatschek

1937 Air France
artist: N. Gerald Alexandre

1937 Air France
Réseau Aérien Mondial
artist: Vinci

1937 Côte d'Azur
Partez PLM
artist: Roland Hugon

1937 La Champagne
artist: Adrien Senechal

1937 Montagnes de France
Chemins de Fer Français
artist: Max Ponty

1938 Air France
Paris Rome Ala Littoria
artist: Albert Solon

1938 Gorges de la Diosaz
Vallée de Chamonix, Servoz
artist: Denise Richard

1938 "L'Atlantique"
L'Amerique du Sud
 artist: A.M. Cassandre

c1938 Allez en Corse
Cie Gle Transatlantique
artist: Edouard Collin

c1938 Chartres
Cathédrales de France
artist: Robert Alexandre

1942 Paris
artist: Paul Colin

1946 Vosges SNCF
artist: Benico

1946 Val de Loire SNCF
artist: Troy

1946 Pyrénées SNCF
artist: Gérard Monet

1946 Paris SNCF
artist: Paul Colin

1946 Ile de France SNCF
artist: L.F. Dominique

1946 Dauphiné SNCF
artist: Paul Kelsch

1946 Bourgogne
Chemin de fer Français
artist: Henry de Waroquier

1946 Air France
Afrique du Nord
artist: Bernard Villemot

1946 Air France
Vers des Ciels Nouveaux
artist: Perceval

1946 Air France
Amérique du Nord
artist: Guy Arnoux

1945 Provence SNCF
artist: Jal

c1946 Nice
artist: Vincent Guerra

1947 Air France
artist: Hervé Baille

1947 Auvergne SNCF
artist: Conrad Kickert

1947 Bretagne SNCF
artist: Abel

1947 Jura SNCF
artist: Georges Pacouil

1947 Lourdes SNCF
artist: Hervé Baille

1947 Nice Travail et Joie
artist: Henri Matisse

1947 Normandie SNCF
artist: Léon Devos

1947 Plages du Débarquement en Normandie SNCF
artist: Albert Brenet

1948 Air France
Afrique Occidentale
 artist: Vincent Guerra

1948 Europe
Air France
artist: Edmond Maurus