Artist
: Maurice
Fievet
Title
: Compagnie
de Navigation
Fraissinet et
Cyprien
Fabre – La
Côte occidentale d’Afrique de Marseille à Pointe Noire
Date
: circa
1960
Size:
24.6 x 39.4 in / 62 x 100 cm
Printer
:
Imp.
Robaudy Cannes
Materials
and Techniques: Colour lithograph on paper
Linen
backing: Yes
Condition:
A (Normally designates a poster in very good condition. Colours
are fresh and there is very little or no paper loss. Any
imperfections are marginal and unnoticeable).
Additional
Details:
Poster
of the Fraissinet and Cyprien Fabre Navigation Company created by
Maurice Fiévet in 1950 to promote maritime tourism between France
and the West African coast.
The Fraissinet navigation company
was founded in January 1836 in Marseille by Marc Constantin
Fraissinet. In 1964, the Fraissinet Company was bought by the
Compagnie Maritime des Chargeurs Réunis, acquired at the same
time as another Marseille company, the Société Générale des
Transports Maritimes (SGTM).
Cyprien Fabre is a French
shipowner from one of the richest merchant families in Marseille.
In 1868, he created a trading and arms business in the form of a
limited partnership named Cyprien Fabre & Cie.
In 1955,
the Compagnie Générale de Navigation à Vapeur Cyprien Fabre &
Cie turned to the Compagnie nationale de navigation of Jean
Fraissinet to form the Compagnie de Navigation Fraissinet et
Cyprien Fabre.
On the poster, we see the liner “Jean
Mermoz” in the background, while in the foreground, locals sell
fresh fish and fruit in the port. Dugout canoes are located at the
foot of the liner.
The “Jean Mermoz”, a legendary liner
from the 1960s, was launched on November 17, 1956 at the Dubigeon
shipyard in Saint Nazaire. Built for the company Fraissinet and
Ciprien Fabre. It bears the name of Jean MERMOZ, famous fighter
pilot and friend of the founder of the company.
Maurice
Fiévet, born in the United States in 1921, was a French
adventurer and genre painter specializing in the ethnography of
Africa and Cambodia.
Further
information and photographs available upon request.
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