?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
ADOLPH TREIDLER (1886-1981)
NEW YORK / THE WONDER CITY OF THE WORLD. 1927.
38 1/2x24 1/2 inches, 97 3/4x62 1/4 cm. Latham Litho & Printing Co., Long Island City. Condition B+: repaired tears, creases and restoration in margins and image; overpainting and repaired tears in lower text; small loss in upper right corner. Framed.
An evocative and dramatic nighttime view of the tip of Manhattan seen past the Statue of Liberty. The "city that never sleeps" is depicted full of life and light, as seen in skyscrapers, ferries, tugboats and a spotlight. Treidler's extensive career as a poster designer began during the First World War and carried on through the 1960s, when he was the in-house designer for Furness Cruise Lines. Treidler, "arguably the nation's most outstanding poster artist," considered this image to be one of his two best-known works (Zega p. 68). Rare. We found fewer than ten copies at auction since 1997. Zega 88, Posters & Publicity 1927 p. 18.
