Artist: HARALD Size: 47 1/4 x 62 3/4 in./120 x 159.5 cm Condition: B/ Slight tears and stains at folds. Printer: Atelier Harald, Paris Reference: Ref: Affiches d'Aviation, p. 31; Looping the Loop, pl. 33; PAI-XXVII, 79 Key Words: Art Nouveau; Aviation; Travel; Animals Grande Semaine d’Aviation d’Égypte / Héliopolis. 1910. One of the oldest, most reliable forms of transportation encounters man's latest innovations for the future of efficient travel in a spectacular wash of vivid desert tincture. Both the Bedouin and his dromedary mount are attentively focused on the heavier-than-air craft filling the skies above the Great Pyramids, including a box-kite tailed Wright Brothers model, a Blériot aircraft, biplanes, and assorted other planes, brought together for the Great Egyptian Aviation Week at Cairo's Heliopolis district. As expansive as the site must have been at the time of this flight week over 100 years ago, the district is now considered to be one of Cairo's prime residential areas. Of Harald, there is little known, save that he ran his own printing firm, resided in Debat-Ponsan, and produced at least one other aviation poster during 1910 for the Reims Flight Week.
Artist: HARALD Size: 47 1/4 x 62 3/4 in./120 x 159.5 cm Condition: B/ Slight tears and stains at folds. Printer: Atelier Harald, Paris Reference: Ref: Affiches d'Aviation, p. 31; Looping the Loop, pl. 33; PAI-XXVII, 79 Key Words: Art Nouveau; Aviation; Travel; Animals Grande Semaine d’Aviation d’Égypte / Héliopolis. 1910. One of the oldest, most reliable forms of transportation encounters man's latest innovations for the future of efficient travel in a spectacular wash of vivid desert tincture. Both the Bedouin and his dromedary mount are attentively focused on the heavier-than-air craft filling the skies above the Great Pyramids, including a box-kite tailed Wright Brothers model, a Blériot aircraft, biplanes, and assorted other planes, brought together for the Great Egyptian Aviation Week at Cairo's Heliopolis district. As expansive as the site must have been at the time of this flight week over 100 years ago, the district is now considered to be one of Cairo's prime residential areas. Of Harald, there is little known, save that he ran his own printing firm, resided in Debat-Ponsan, and produced at least one other aviation poster during 1910 for the Reims Flight Week.
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