Feb 07, 2002 - Sale 1924

Sale 1924 - Lot 268

Price Realized: $ 3,220
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500
SASCHA MAURERSTRAIGHT TO THE GATE. Circa 1939.
39 1/2x24 inches.
Condition B: restored paper loss, repaired tears and creasing along vertical and horizontal folds, in image and at edges.
A young couple is observing the ease and convenience of getting to the World's Fair on the Pennsylvania Railroad, the red trains of which are shooting through the night-time city 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 Perishpere; lettering in yellow and blue.