Nov 18, 2009 - Sale 2196

Sale 2196 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
NORDMAN (DATES UNKNOWN) EGYPT CALLS YOU / EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS. Circa 1930.
38 3/4x23 inches, 98 1/2x58 1/2 cm. Amirayan & Co., Cairo.
Condition B+: repaired tears, creases, restoration and overpainting in margins and image.
While the rails and some of the typography converging into the distance along the perspective lines is consistent with prevailing European graphic design at the time, the head-on view of the locomotive without any perspective is novel and unexpected. This is the English version. Voyage p. 125 (var).