Nov 13, 2006 - Sale 2093

Sale 2093 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
EARL HORTER (1883-1940) GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL / NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. 1927.
39 1/4x25 5/8 inches. Latham Liho. & Printing Co., Long Island City, New York.
Condition B+: numerous creases in image; minor restored losses in image and margins; minor repaired tears in margins. Printed on thick stock.
The interior of the main hall of New York City's Grand Central Station, looking east. This image, taken from an etching, "revealed a Modernist influence . . . Horter filled the renowned mixing space with sketchily abstract figures, making it pulse with energy as bands of sepia-toned light gave depth to the vast expanse beneath the barrel-vaulted ceiling" (Zega p. 68). Notice the cars at the far end, a long lost feature of the station. Zega fig. 89.