BWIA Barbados Caribbean Airline Cosomati
Original vintage silkscreen poster for BWIA British West Indian Airlines the airline of the Caribbean advertising Barbados featuring a bright and colourful image of a man wearing a striped triangle shaped headdress and walking on stilts tied to his legs with a music triangle and drums next to him and a plane flying overhead against a dark blue background, the bold white lettering above and below. Artwork by the Italian artist Aldo Cosomati (1897-1977). BWIA - or Bee Wee as it was known - was a subsidiary of BOAC until 1961 and the national airline based in Trinidad and Tobago from 1939 until 2006 when it became Caribbean Airlines. Fair condition, small paper loss, restored tears, restored creasing, backed on linen.
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