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Roger PONTABRY (1905 - 1991) Musée de l'homme - Voyage de "La Korrigane" , June - October 1938 Chromolithograph. Mounted on canvas. Studio Prot, Paris. Photo M. Gauterot. Signed upper right. 80x60cm Bibliography: Max Bonhomme, Graphisme et photomontages dans l'Almanach ouvrier et paysan (1925-1939): la construction visuelle d'une identité communiste, Université Paris-Nanterre, Labex Art H2h. Passionate about ethnography, the couple Étienne and Monique de Ganay, Régine (his sister) wife of Charles de Broek d'Obrenan, and their friend Ratisbonne spent two years traveling around Oceania aboard a former Terneuva named "La Korrigane". On their return in 1938, they made a major donation to the Musée de l'Homme, the pretext for an exhibition that became a social event. Le Figaro sang the praises of "his young and sympathetic travelers, known and loved by Parisian society". Paul Valery wrote the preface to the catalog. For the poster, they chose a young graphic artist: Roger Pontabry "who gravitated in Parisian modernist graphic circles around the UAM and Arts et Métiers Graphiques". He chose to depict an over-modelled Vanuatu plant headdress in a surrealist-modernist environment.
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Roger PONTABRY (1905 - 1991) Musée de l'homme - Voyage de "La Korrigane" , June - October 1938 Chromolithograph. Mounted on canvas. Studio Prot, Paris. Photo M. Gauterot. Signed upper right. 80x60cm Bibliography: Max Bonhomme, Graphisme et photomontages dans l'Almanach ouvrier et paysan (1925-1939): la construction visuelle d'une identité communiste, Université Paris-Nanterre, Labex Art H2h. Passionate about ethnography, the couple Étienne and Monique de Ganay, Régine (his sister) wife of Charles de Broek d'Obrenan, and their friend Ratisbonne spent two years traveling around Oceania aboard a former Terneuva named "La Korrigane". On their return in 1938, they made a major donation to the Musée de l'Homme, the pretext for an exhibition that became a social event. Le Figaro sang the praises of "his young and sympathetic travelers, known and loved by Parisian society". Paul Valery wrote the preface to the catalog. For the poster, they chose a young graphic artist: Roger Pontabry "who gravitated in Parisian modernist graphic circles around the UAM and Arts et Métiers Graphiques". He chose to depict an over-modelled Vanuatu plant headdress in a surrealist-modernist environment.
