Feb 29, 2024 - Sale 2660

Sale 2660 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

THE LAST OF THE SKI BUMS. 1969.


40½x29¼ inches, 102¾x74¼ cm. Personality Posters Inc., New York.
Condition A-: minor repaired tears and overpainting at edges; minor abrasions in image. Silkscreen.

A 1969 documentary by Dick Barrymore following three "three ski-bums" for four months of their nomadic inter-continental adventures. The film has been called the ski version of "Endless Summer" (a documentary from 1966), and the neon poster, with silhouetted figures against a glowing yellow sun, seems to be a direct nod to the earlier picture.