Vintage Original 1952 FRANCE ALPS Travel Poster Train airline railway art ski For Sale

This is a VintageOriginal 1952 Pyrénées FRANCE ALPS Travel Poster - Téléphérique du Béout -It is not a reprint or reproduction. Full color lithograph, measures24 3/8\" x 39 3/8\".Poster isin excellent condition! The colors are as crisp and bright as the day it was printed. Corners and edges are generally sharp. Poster has light edge wear/wrinkling along the white border (as shown), and some light yellowing in the left white border (hardly noticeable). No tears, tape or pin holes (please see photos). It would be difficult to find another in this good of condition. Displays beautifully!

Printed in France

Artist: Hubert Mathieu

Fabulous posterfeaturing lovely art scene of the France Alps! Beautiful art! Rare poster!

The Pyrénées is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain. Reaching a height of 3,404 metres (11,168 ft) altitude at the peak of Aneto, the range separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe. For the most part, the main crest forms a divide between France and Spain, with the microstate of Andorra sandwiched in between.

Lourdes is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region in south-western France. Prior to the mid-19th century, the town was best known for the Château fort de Lourdes, a fortified castle that rises up from a rocky escarpment at its center. Lourdes is a site of religious pilgrimage and tourism, hosts around six million visitors every year from all corners of the world, and is the second most important center of tourism in France, second only to Paris.The Téléphérique du Béout (Cable Car of the Béout), constructed in the 1930s, located southwest of the city of Lourdes, ascended the mountain called \"The Béout\" (Altitude 719m). It ceased operations in the 1990s as it was no longer in compliance with new safety standards. There is great nostalgia for this cable car because it was free and because the young people of that time remember looking down through the cracks in the wooden floor of the cabin where you could see the emptiness below.

About the Artist: Hubert Jean Mathews (born 4 January 1897 in Brookings, South Dakota) was a student of Harvey Dunn and Henry Raleigh. He was a member of the American League of Artist Teachers. He first devoted his career to magazine illustration and achieved considerable success as an illustrator in the 1920s and 1930s. He then redirected his career into advertising art and won critical acclaim for his various advertising posters.