Nov 19, 2015 - Sale 2399

Sale 2399 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LESTER BEALL (1903-1969) S.S. AMERICA / UNITED STATES LINES. Circa 1952.
30 1/4x22 inches, 76 3/4x56 cm.
Condition A / A-: slight darkening at left edge; minor creases at lower right corner. Metal strips affixed to top and bottom. Paper.
In 1937, Beall was the first American designer to have a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art. He designed at least six posters for the United States Lines, each with a crisp, efficient, modern graphic treatment, and realized with a contemporary dynamic vision.