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Original vintage travel poster for Brest - Le Phare de Kereon - Ouessant - France / Brest - The Lighthouse of Kereon - Ouessant - France. Great black and white photo off the lighthouse on a white border. Brest is a city in the Finistère département in Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of the peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France,[4] Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon. The city is located on the western edge of continental Europe. With 142,722 inhabitants in a 2007 census, Brest is at the centre of Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area (with a population of 300,300 in total), ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 19th most populous city in France; moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany. Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère, the préfecture (regional capital) of the department is the much smaller Quimper. During the Middle Ages, the history of Brest was the history of its castle. Then Richelieu made it a military harbour in 1631. Brest grew around its arsenal until the second part of the 20th century. Heavily damaged by the Allies' bombing raids during World War II, the city centre was completely rebuilt after the war. At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the deindustrialization of the city was followed by the development of the service sector. Nowadays, Brest is an important university town with 23,000 students. Besides a multidisciplinary university, the University of Western Brittany, Brest and its surrounding area possess several prestigious French elite schools such as École Navale (the French Naval Academy), Télécom Bretagne and the Superior National School of Advanced Techniques of Brittany (ENSTA Bretagne, formerly ENSIETA). Brest is also an important research centre, mainly focused on the sea, with among others the largest Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) centre, le Cedre (Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution) and the French Polar Institute. Brest's history has always been linked to the sea: the Académie de Marine (Naval Academy) was founded in 1752 in this city. The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle was built there. Every four years, Brest hosts the international festival of the sea, boats and sailors: it is a meeting of old riggings from around the world (Les Tonnerres de Brest). Good condition, creasing, staining, small tears, large tear repaired with water soluble tape. Country: France, year of printing: 1960s, designer: Crier le Bras, size (cm): 100x61
A Japanese porcelain Imari vase, Meiji period, the vase of large proportions with tapered neck and crimped rim, 46cm high, with a pair of Japanese Satsuma high shouldered vases, decorated in relief with figures in a landscape, 24cm high, a Japanese Imari plate, 28.5cm diameter and two 19th century French Hentriot Quimper bowls decorated with Petit Breton designs (At Fault) (6)
Coll Pottery fish shaped serving dish, with wooden box, Quimper fish shaped dish, assorted studio pottery, Scottish glass paperweight, pair of silver plated candlesticks converted to table lamps, slip decorated dish, Royal Crown Derby dish, Limoges egg shaped trinket box, teawares etc Condition Report: Not available for this lot
A Henriot Quimper faience porringer, decorated with a Breton figure, 14.5 cm wide, marked to base; together with an early 19th Century Creil Montereau blue and white plate, with Japanese style prunus decoration, 18.5 cm diameter; a Booths 'Netherlands' pattern octagonal plate, floral decoration, 20.5 cm wide; and a continental plate with hand-painted floral decoration (4)
ANDRE DEVAMBEZ (FRENCH 1867-1944) Portrait of the Artist's Parents, oil on canvas 60 x 33.5 cm (23 5/8 x 13 1/4 in.) signed upper left PROVENANCEMillon Jutheau, Paris, March 17, 1989, lot 195. (Copy of invoice available upon request.)Acquired by the present owner at the above sale LOT NOTES ANDRE DEVAMBEZAndre Devambez was a French painter and illustrator. His work includes, on the one hand, religious and historical compositions of academic style and realistic portraits; on the other hand, humorous cartoons, published especially in le Rire (the Laughter) and l'Illustration (the Illustration), as well as many genre paintings, populated with a crowd of small characters seen in plunging perspective, multiple scenes inspired by the Commune and the First War World. He is represented in Paris: Mus_e d'Orsay, Victor Hugo museum, in the museums of Quimper, Tourcoing, Rouen, Dijon, Cholet, as well as by an important collection of works at the museum of Beauvais. Devambez also executed a series of 12 decorative paintings on the theme of modern life and inventions for the French Embassy in Vienna (1910).
