Dec 18, 2012 - Sale 2299

Sale 2299 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
DESIGNER UNKNOWN LA SFIDA DI KING KONG. Circa 1945.
57 1/2x54 inches, 146x137 1/2 cm.
Condition B+: repaired tears in upper right margin; abrasions and restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; creases and restoration in image. Two-sheets.
White Pongo, released in 1945, tells the story of scientists hunting down a savage albino gorilla thought to be the missing link. This Italian version is substantially more dramatic, exciting, scary and risque than its American counterpart. Beauty and the Beast p. 36.