Oct 15, 2020 - Sale 2547

Sale 2547 - Lot 106

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

SASCHA MAURER (1897-1961)

WORLD'S FAIR NEW YORK / STRAIGHT TO THE GATE / PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. 1939.


40 3/4x25 1/4 inches, 116 1/4x64 cm.
Condition B+: expertly-repaired tears at edges, some into text and image; creases and restoration in margins and image.

A young couple observes 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.