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Travel Poster Europe Air France Jean Carlu - Original vintage Air France travel poster promoting flights across Europe, designed by the world-renowned French graphic designer and master of Art Deco cubism Jean Carlu (1900-1997), the poster features billboard-poster billsticker in a white coat scaling a wooden ladder to stick up posters, surrounding him is a colorful, graphic checkerboard grid showcasing symbolic vignettes of various European cultures and landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower representing France, the Leaning Tower of Pisa for Italy, an ancient Greek amphora vase, a traditional Spanish guitar with a fan, a foaming German beer stein with a pipe, a Scandinavian stag, and a majestic castle with a flying Union Jack flag, and a Viking ship. Printed by S.A. Courbet in Paris. Good condition, repaired tears, minor staining, backed on linen. Country of issue: France, designer: Jean Carlu, size (cm): 99x62, year of printing: 1950s.