Set: Vers le Mont Blanc - Day, Night, Dusk

This is a dramatic, minimalist series of France's famed Mont Blanc, framed between the silhouetted slopes of tree-lined hills. The graphic, zipper-like train track serves to both open up the mountain to view and lead the eye towards the focal point. Posted side-by-side, these three posters create a cinematic effect, a unique graphic concept among travel posters. (Hillion p. 214, Voyage p. 35, Alps 43, Art of Skiing p. 53, Affiche Art Deco p. 54.) The artist, Georges Dorival, has created a triptych of images to portray the Mont Blanc vista in a minimalist fashion showing three times of day and their colors. The unifying theme is the stark beauty of Mont Blanc. The poster series was commissioned by the French National Railway PLM (Paris, Lyons, Mediterane’e - the three main hubs). Justin Marie Georges Dorival, commonly referred to as Geo Dorival or Georges Dorival (1879 -1968) was a French poster artist. Unfortunately, there is little biographical information on him. In his career he