Nov 11, 2005 - Sale 2056

Sale 2056 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ANONYMOUS. CHICAGO / UNITED AIRLINES. Circa early 1950s.
371/2x25 inches.
Condition B+: restoration in corners and margins; repaired tears through margins affecting image.
In a spectacularly colored dusk scene, a United Airlines DC-6 is flying over Chicago's Michigan Avenue Bridge, raised to let a ship pass beneath, with the Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower looming majestically in the background.