Striking pictorial planisphere showing an elongated terrestrial globe with Air France routes in white, surrounded by a richly decorated border of landscapes. The map shows routes east to Japan and west to the Americas. A significant expansion of the airline network. Numerous vignettes illustrate special landmarks, people and animals.
Lucien Boucher is a commercial poster artist and illustrator born in Chartres in 1889 and died in 1971. Graduated from the Ecole de céramiques de Sèvres, he began his career as a cartoonist for the satiric newspaper Le Rire. In the 1920s he worked actively as a poster designer for the movies and the advertising industry. He designed a significant number of lithographies inspired by the surrealism style. He’s very well known for his posters designed for Air France.
