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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DESIGNER UNKNOWN PAN AM / RIO. Circa 1965. 37x25 inches, 94x63 1/2 cm. Condition A: minor restoration at edges. "Oba-Oba dancers from Oswaldo Sargentelli's night-club in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil" wearing 10 inch heels and not much else. Sargentelli, the famed "Sambista," brought Mulatto dancers to the world's attention in the late 1960s. Here, Pan Am forgoes traditional travel images in favor of a more prurient advertising strategy. "This controversial poster . . . was quickly pulled after the mayor of Rio stated that these dancers represented another region of Brazil, but not Rio. He feared tourism might be hurt" (The Popular Culture Review, Vol. 5 No. 2, August 1994, pps. 123-131). Airlines p. 54.
