Nov 18, 2009 - Sale 2196

Sale 2196 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
DESIGNER UNKNOWN KURGARTEN HOTEL / DAVOS. Circa 1930.
39 3/4x27 3/4 inches, 101x70 1/2 cm. Fiedler S.A., La Chaux-de Fonds.
Condition B+ / A-: repaired tear in image; creases, abrasions and repaired tears in margins, some slightly affecting image.
For a no-longer extant Davos hotel, an anonymous artist engages the viewer by depicting the approach, from a driver's perspective. The curious choice to highlight the hotel's garage strongly implies that this was early enough in the automotive era to make it fashionable to drive to the Alps. Previously unrecorded.