?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
GEORGE PETTY CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR. 1933. 40 1/2x26 1/4 inches. Condition B+: repaired tears and creases in margins and image; overpainting in margins; horizontal folds. One of Petty's earliest posters using an airbrush, this piece won him the first prize in the 1933 Chicago World's Fair poster contest. Here, a woman in blue is inviting spectators in front of orange images of a Native American and a map of the United States; lettering in orange, white and red.
