Tunis 1920
Buy this print on Etsy →A great travel poster does not merely advertise a place; it promises a transformation. Roger Broders's Tunis, created in 1920, offers precisely that, holding out the lure of a world genuinely different from the one the traveller is leaving behind.
Tunisia sits just across the Mediterranean from Marseille, an easy crossing yet a true threshold. Broders resists the temptation to sell the city's cosmopolitan hotels and entertainments. Instead he showcases the region's exotic, authentic character, framing Tunis as a destination of real otherness and discovery. The result promises visitors an encounter with unfamiliar landscapes and cultures, a journey that feels less like a holiday and more like an awakening of the senses. In an age when North Africa was newly within reach, that promise of authenticity was itself the most powerful thing a poster could offer.
Roger Broders (1883-1953) ranks among the most admired poster artists of the golden age of rail. His luminous PLM commissions drew travellers toward the Alps, the Jura and the sun-warmed Riviera, and his talent for reducing a scene to flat, saturated planes of colour made him one of the era's most collectable names. His posters now hang in museums and private collections around the world.
Tunis is a fine example of Art Deco at work. The movement rose in 1920s France on a wave of enthusiasm for speed, luxury and machine-age geometry, distilling sweeping vistas into bold, simplified shapes. That confident economy of line gave the travel poster its distinctive glamour and its infectious sense of forward-looking optimism.
Hung at scale, a vintage lithographic poster becomes a genuine focal point. Its rich palette and decisive composition hold their own above a sofa, bed or console, anchor a gallery wall of mixed prints, and bring warmth, colour and a sense of history to a living room, hallway, dining room, home bar, kitchen or studio.
Each copy is printed to order on premium 189 gsm museum-grade archival matte paper with fade-resistant pigment inks, yielding gallery-quality colour and crisp, faithful detail. Choose your preferred size from the drop-down menu: 8x12, 12x18, 16x24, 20x30 or 24x36 inches. Orders arrive carefully packaged and shipped rolled in a sturdy tube, with the smallest size sent flat; a frame is not included.
This is a faithful fine-art reproduction of the original stone lithograph, colour-matched and printed to archival standards rather than a flat mass-market copy. It preserves the texture and character of the antique poster while arriving crisp, clean and ready to frame. Reproduced from a high-resolution scan of the original, it retains the subtle age-toning that forms part of its authentic historic character.
For anyone drawn to vintage travel posters, Art Deco design and the romance of North African adventure, Tunis makes a memorable gift and a lasting way to bring a piece of Mediterranean travel art into a home, studio or workplace.
