Jan 22, 2015 - Sale 2372

Sale 2372 - Lot 289

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
FRITZ WILLIS.
Ice Follies Souvenir Program Cover. Oil on illustration board. 750x540 mm; 29 1/2x21 1/2 inches, image. Signed lower right. Framed. 1963.

Additional Details

Original cover art of two women skaters in costume for the Twenty-Seventh Annual Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies souvenir program (copy included). Begun in 1937, the Ice Follies merged with Holiday on Ice in 1979. The program lists such numbers as "Pacific Paradise," "Pink Champagne," "It Could Only Happen in Texas," and, surely the show-stopper, "Fantasy in Space" - featuring "a total of 154 yards of sliver plated nylon chiffon." Charming Camelot-era painting.