?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
FRED LUDEKENS (1900-1982)
ARIZONA / AMERICAN AIRLINES. Circa 1950s.
39 1/2x29 1/2 inches, 100 1/4x75 cm. Condition B+: repaired tears and overpainting in margins, some into image; replaced losses and repaired pin holes in corners; creases and restoration in image.
Ludekens began his artistic career as a billboard painter for Foster & Kleiser. He then moved to New York City and joined the advertising firm of Lord & Thomas. In addition to his illustrations, which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and other magazines, he also specialized in landscapes - apparent in this idyllic scene promoting travel to Arizona.
