Aug 01, 2007 - Sale 2120

Sale 2120 - Lot 316

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
FRANCOIS GOS (1880-1942) HOTELS SEILER / ZERMATT. 1932.
50 1/4x35 1/2 inches. (127 x 90 cm.) Sauberlin & Pfeiffer, S. V. Vevey.
Condition B: tears, wrinkles, and losses in margins and image; tape on verso. Paper.
A crisp view of Switzerland's dramatic Matterhorn, seen from across flower-strewn cliffs. Gos, a muralist and botanical artist, is known to have designed only a handful of posters. The Seiler family opened their first hotel in Zermatt (The Monte Rosa) in 1855, built upon the foundation of the Lauber Inn, Zermatt's first hotel. The family now operates five hotels in this exclusive Swiss resort town.