Oct 18, 2013 - Sale 2326

Sale 2326 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?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.
30x22 inches, 76 1/4x56 cm.
Condition A / A-: pen mark in text at top; minor tears at edges; metal strips affixed to top and bottom margins. 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 6 posters for the United States Lines, each with a crisp, efficient, modern graphic treatment, and realized with a contemporary dynamic vision.