"Marseilles, Le Vieux Port le Transbordeur". Watercolor on paper, signed and titled in ink in the lower left corner, hinged into a mat, not framed. The paper size is 15-1/4" x 22-3/4", and overall with the matting it measures 17-1/2" x 26". The view of the old port, shows the large ferry, steam boats and horse and buggy in fore-ground.
In January 1943, the Nazis, aided by the French police, dynamited much of the historic old town and demolished the gigantic aerial ferry or "transbordeur", an engineering tour de force that had become a major landmark of Marseille, comparable to the Eiffel tower in Paris. This became known as the "Battle of Marseilles".
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