Nov 19, 2015 - Sale 2399

Sale 2399 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
SASCHA MAURER (1897-1961) WORLD'S FAIR NEW YORK / STRAIGHT TO THE GATE / PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. 1939.
41x25 inches, 104x63 1/2 cm.
Condition B+: repaired tears, restoration and overpainting in margins and image.
A young couple is observing the ease and convenience of getting to the World's Fair on the Pennsylvania Railroad; the red trains shoot through the nighttime cityscape to the bright World's Fair station. Visible among New York's newly completed architectural details are the Empire State and Chrysler buildings, Rockefeller Center, a larger-than-life Pennsylvania Station and the Fair's Trylon and Perisphere. One of two posters the artist designed for the Pennsylvania Railroad promoting travel to the Fair.