Nov 18, 2009 - Sale 2196

Sale 2196 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
TOMI UNGERER (1931- ) AIR-INDIA / PARIS. 1969.
39 1/2x25 inches, 100x64 cm. Prasad Process Ltd., Madras.
Condition B+: creases in margins and image. Framed.
A delightfully insouciant, playful and enticingly risque image. One of the twelve posters designed by Ungerer for Air India "to show the various cities to which its planes fly. They were very popular and Air India turned these into a . . . calendar for the year 1971" (Ungerer p. 178). Ungerer p. 179, Graphis Annual 71/72.