REB (Henry). The Veyrier - Lake Annecy cable car. Compagnie des Bateaux, Annecy, 1934. Colour lithographed poster, 48 x 33 cm, framed. Beautiful art deco poster, extolling the virtues of the Veyrier ascent to the top station at 1300 m altitude, with a "panorama unique in the world" of Mont Blanc and the Alps. Condition A-. This cable car was commissioned in 1934; it had to be shut down in 1984 because the installation was no longer up to standard. It was not possible to replace it because it flew over many of the houses built in Veyrier since it went into service, and it was completely dismantled, depriving the boat company of an essential tourist asset. Henry Reb (Montbéliard, 1883 - Saint-Mandé 1959), whose real name was René-Pierre Louis Besserve, was a French painter and illustrator. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier and attended the Académie Julian. A talented illustrator, he began his career alongside Juan Gris and Félix Vallotton at the satirical magazine Le Cri de Paris. In 1933, he produced a famous poster extolling the virtues of Chamonix as the capital of skiing and mountaineering. Wagons-Lits diffusion n° 568 - Viaggio nelle Alpi p. 95