Nov 11, 2005 - Sale 2056

Sale 2056 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 13,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
CHESLEY BONESTELL NEW YORK CENTRAL BUILDING. 1930.
403/4x265/8 Latham Litho, Long Island City, NY.
Condition A: restored pinholes in corners.
A dramatic evening scene of the New York Central Building, right above Grand Central Station, which is framed between the beams of two klieg lights and the venerable buildings on Park Avenue. Supposedly, when the railroad sold off this famous building, the new owners, in an attempt to save money on renaming the structure and changing all the signs, simply converted the name to the New York General Building, which entailed only the minor, inexpensive replacement of two letters! Zega p. 75.