Oct 10, 2024 - Sale 2681

Sale 2681 - Lot 184

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

JOSEPH FEHER (1909-1988)

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA / UNITED AIR LINES. Circa 1950.


40x25 inches, 101½x63½ cm.
Condition A-: small repaired tear at top edge, into text; minor repaired tears in corners.

Hungarian-born Feher studied art in Budapest, Italy and Germany before coming to America in 1928, where he had a scholarship to study at the Art Institute of Chicago. He moved to Hawaii in 1947 where he worked as a designer for the Bishop Museum and taught at the Honolulu Academy of the Arts. One of his largest commissions was with United Airlines, for whom he designed at least ten posters.

Airlines p. 51.