Nov 14, 2019 - Sale 2524

Sale 2524 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
BEN NASON (1915-?) BOSTON / THE NEW HAVEN RAILROAD. Circa 1942.
42x27 1/2 inches, 106 3/4x70 cm.
Condition B / B+: replaced losses and overpainting in margins, one into lower text; repaired tear from top edge, into image; small repaired tears at edges; unobtrusive water stain in lower right margin.
This example illustrates familiar historical sites in Boston, pictured by day and by night in complementary tones. (The Art Directors Annual of Advertising Arts, January 1, 1943), MoMA 101.1944.