Oct 10, 2024 - Sale 2681

Sale 2681 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

DAVID KLEIN (1918-2005)

FLY TWA / LOS ANGELES. Circa 1956.


40x25 inches, 101½x63½ cm.
Condition B+ / B: minor abrasions at edges; minor water staining at bottom left. Mounted on foamcore.

This is one of two text variations; the other says "Hollywood." This earlier printing features a detailed depiction of a Lockheed Constellation. There is also a subsequent "Los Angeles" printing from circa 1960, in which the Constellation was replaced by the silhouette of a jet plane.

Huhne p. 61.