Feb 24, 2022 - Sale 2596

Sale 2596 - Lot 212

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500

CARL FRANZ MOOS (1878-1959)

"SWISSAIR" / SERVICES AÉRIENS. Circa 1933.


40x25 inches, 101 1/2x63 1/2 cm. Orell Füssli, Zurich.
Condition B+: replaced losses and overpainting along top right edge; repaired tears at edges, some into image; minor creases in margins and image; foxing in right image and some at edges.

This is the first poster designed for Swissair, advertising the start of flight operations with the Fokker F-VII aircraft. There are several text variants for this image.