Nov 10, 2022 - Sale 2621

Sale 2621 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

ROBERT PEAK (1927-1992)

STAIRWAY TO THE STARS / SOUTHERN PACIFIC. 1955.


21 1/2x14 3/4 inches, 54 1/2x37 1/2 cm.
Condition B: repaired tears at edges, some into image; staining and restoration at edges; restoration along abrasions in image and along vertical and horizontal folds.

Peak was a commercial illustrator and designer with numerous prominent magazine covers to his credit (TV Guide, Time and Sports Illustrated), as well as some U.S. postage stamp designs. Most famously, he is remembered for his many memorable, if not iconic, movie posters such as My Fair Lady, Apocalypse Now, Superman, The Spy Who Loved Me and many others. He designed this poster early on in his career, only a few years after he graduated from Art Center College of Design, in Los Angeles.

Additional Details

From the collection of Victor Ryerson.