Feb 24, 2022 - Sale 2596

Sale 2596 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

SKI ALTA. Circa 1940s.


25 1/4x16 1/2 inches, 64x42 cm.
Condition B+: minor tears and abrasions in margins; creases in margins in image; skinning in lower left corner; time-staining in upper left corner and image; paper insert affixed in lower text. Paper.

This poster was printed in the early 1940s when Dick Durrance ran the Alta Ski School (1940-1942). About a decade later, his name was covered by a tip-on to indicate that the ski school had been taken over by Alf Engen, who began his 40 year tenure there in 1949.