?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
DAVID KLEIN (1918-2005)
NEW YORK / FLY TWA. 1956.
39 3/4x25 inches, 101x63 1/2 cm. Condition B+: replaced losses in corners; creases and minor restoration at edges, some into image.
A bright, abstract, kaleidoscopic view of Times Square, with its billboards, lights, traffic, energy and excitement. The electric Day-Glo colors exude the visual splendor of the city. This is the rarer first printing of the poster, which features a detailed image of a TWA Constellation. Later versions depict the silhouette of a jet plane. A year after it was issued, a copy of this poster was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art for their permanent collection. This is the original printing. Metzl p. 166, Airways p. 148 (var), MoMA 329.1957, Taschen p. 444 (var).
