Jul 16, 2020 - Sale 2541

Sale 2541 - Lot 145

Price Realized: $ 715
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
BOB ZIERING.
"Olympic Torch Bearers." Maquette for a poster commissioned by ARA Services (now Aramark) to promote the 1984 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles. Pen, ink, and nupastel on illustration board. 640x610 mm; 25 1/2x24 inches, on 30 1/2x24 1/2-inch sheet. Signed "Ziering" and dated [19]83 in lower right image.

>Ziering received his first serious commission from Reader's Digest. His subsequent illustration work for Fortune 500 companies and cultural institutions, such as The Metropolitan Opera and Cirque du Soleil, has earned him several ANDY awards, the highest honor awarded to commercial illustrators. After working as an illustrator for more than forty years, Ziering now devotes his time to expressing his personal artistic vision in his New York City studio.