?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WALTER HEMMING (1894-1979) MITROPA SCHLAFWAGEN. 1929. 24 1/2x14 3/4 inches, 62x37 1/2 cm. Richard Keltz, Berlin. Condition B+ / B: restoration and restored loss in upper right corner. Founded in 1916, the famous Middle European Sleeping and Dining Car Company (Mitropa) was the European equivalent of America's Pullman company. In this stylized image, one of Mitropa's colorful sleeping wagons is streaming past an Art Deco skyline. The poster exists with several text variations across the bottom. This is the rarer, small format. Le Train p. 89 (var).
