Nov 23, 2021 - Sale 2589

Sale 2589 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

HENRY K. BENCSATH (1909-1996)

NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR / AMERICAN AIRLINES. 1964.


39 3/4x30 1/2 inches, 101x77 1/2 cm.
Condition A.

Bencsath was primarily a stamp designer, for which he was highly-regarded, but he also designed two posters for American Airlines. This wonderful modernist cityscape of Manhattan also features the Unisphere, the icon of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. Huhne p. 138.