Original Poster Corse - by Arthur Fages - 1955

Published by the SNCF in 1955, this magnificent travel poster by Arthur Fages pays tribute to Corsica - an island of character, silence, and light. Rendered in an expressive painterly style, it captures the natural majesty and rugged beauty of the Corsican coastline, where villages appear suspended between sea and sky.

The scene, dominated by a sunlit rocky promontory crowned with a Genoese tower, overlooks a Mediterranean sea in crystalline tones. Below, a solitary dark figure - presumably a local - walks along an ancestral path. The composition evokes both the mineral grandeur and the human intimacy of an island still wild and secret, promising true escape.

Printed by Éditions Hubert Baille & Cie in Paris, this offset poster measures approximately 39.2 x 24.2 inches, is linen-backed, and preserved in A+ condition, with remarkably fresh colors. It perfectly embodies the golden age of railway advertising, when SNCF celebrated the treasures of the French landscape through illustrated art.