Nov 19, 2015 - Sale 2399

Sale 2399 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
LESLIE RAGAN (1897-1972) CHICAGO / NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. 1929.
40 3/4x26 3/4 inches, 103 1/2x68 cm. Latham Litho.
Condition B: replaced lower right corner, affecting image; repaired tears, restored losses, abrasions and overpainting in margins; creases and abrasions in margins and image.
This was Ragan's first poster for the New York Central Lines, "a cityscape of Chicago's Michigan Avenue dominated by a towering midday thunderhead . . . [in which he conveyed his newly-emerging style with] reflected light and building mass" (Zega p. 95). Zega 119.