Sep 26, 2024 - Sale 2679

Sale 2679 - Lot 168

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

DESIGNER UNKNOWN


Voyagez Vers Les U.S.A. Par PAA / Pan American World Airways. Circa 1955.
Lithograph poster. 102¾x63½ cm, 40½x25 inches.

Erected in 1937 on Fifth Avenue as part of Rockefeller Center, Lee Lawrie's two-ton statue of Atlas rises 45 feet into the air. On the shoulder of the giant is an armillary sphere (a skeletal celestial sphere), which rests on a curved beam bearing the symbols of the planets (all except Pluto). The magnificent bronze Art Deco statue remains a prominent and important tourist site.

This is the French version.

New York p. 180 (var).