Oct 10, 2024 - Sale 2681

Sale 2681 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

PAUL GEORGE LAWLER (DATES UNKNOWN)

FLYING DOWN TO RIO / IN FIVE DAYS VIA PAN AMERICAN. Circa 1938.


41¼x27½ inches, 104¾x69¾ cm.
Condition B+: expert overpainting in margins and around text; restoration along creases in image.

A soaring view of Rio de Janeiro's majestic and sprawling Guanabara and Botafogo Bays seen from the top of Mount Corcovado, with a Pan American Sikorsky S-42 (the Flying Clipper) even higher in the air. This 24-passenger flying boat made the flight from Miami, which consisted of a series of hops down the coast. Several variations of the poster exist, one with the text "It's a Small World by Pan American Airways."

Pan Am p. 65, Airlines p. 9 (var), Airways p. 50 (var).