Artist: Hatem El Mekki
Condition: A- *
Dimensions: 25.6 x 39.2 in. / 65 x 99.6 cm.
Circa: 1964
Linen Backed
* See Condition Grading section for further details
There is minor edge and corner wear, tears, small chips, creasing; some creasing in image; this bright and colorful midcentury African travel poster should display beautifully once framed.
A genuine graphic invention with the camel curving into a near-perfect arc, its back becoming a landscape as the Mediterranean sea, striped textiles, a modernist hotel, are all held beneath a beach umbrella. The whole of Tunisia compressed into a single, witty silhouette against cobalt blue.
One of the most imaginatively composed tourism posters of the 1960s.