‘Samivel’ Paul Gayet-Tancrède (1907 – 1992)
Chamonix – Découvrez la montagne avec un guide (1975)
Original vintage poster
98 x 61 cm
Samivel’s design sees three men scale an isolated Chamonix peak heavy with snow; one of them must be the guide which the poster recommends.
Samivel was a writer, an artist, a photographer, an explorer and more. In 1948 he accompanied Paul Émile Victor on the first French Greenland expedition, making three documentary films in the process. His friends included Théodore Monod and Gilbert André – the latter the mayor of Bonneval-sur-Arc and one of the founders of the Vanoise National Park – and with them and others he spent his whole life aiming for the protection of the imperilled countryside. The graphic artist side of him had a life-long fascination with high mountains, and his illustrated books and series of posters of the French Alps have long been popular.
Condition: generally very good; pin holes to corners; a little creasing to edges; and small loss to top right corner, all of which will disappear behind mount/mat; and the odd handling mark.
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