?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FRANK SOLTESZ (1898-1972)
FLY TWA JETSTREAM. Circa 1957.
40 1/2x25 inches, 102 3/4x63 1/2 cm. Condition B+: small replaced loss and repaired tear at upper left edge; minor repaired tears, creases and abrasions at edges; minor water stains at right edge and upper left image.
Soltesz was an art director and illustrator. During World War II, much of his work focused on the airline industry. Advertisements he designed for various companies appeared in all of the great American magazines of the mid-20th century. He also illustrated a number of map covers for Esso. Soltesz began to design magazine ads for TWA as early as the 1940s, and is known to have designed several posters for the airline. A variant of this image bears the text "Siesta Sleeper Seats Coast to Coast."
