Roland Coudon: Zurich
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Roland Coudon: Zurich

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Roland Coudon: Zurich, townscape, oil on canvas, including a canal or river. Superb view of this beautiful city. Art 19.75 x 24, framed 25.5 x 29.5. Please see all photos, frame has some dings.   Roland Coudon was a painter, draftsman, engraver and poster designer (1897-1954). Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, he first became famous for his portraits, many of them for Marshal Pétain. In 1937, he won a gold medal for the decoration of two pavilions at the Paris exhibition (PC, 1944). He produced many posters for the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), including the one entitled "I keep the promises ...", drawn more than three million copies for the most important campaign of the Occupation. His posters for the cinema, including that for the movie King Kong in 1933 (Artnet, 2015), or that of Fire Mon Oncle !, a great film by Laurel and Hardy (Bibliothèques de Chartres, 2009), earned him a great reputation. After the war, he was treated in Montana and discovered Valais and Switze

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