Feb 05, 2009 - Sale 2168

Sale 2168 - Lot 356

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) LAKE PLACID / III OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES. 1932.
40x25 inches, 101 1/2x63 1/2 cm.
Condition B+: foxing and creases in margins and image. Paper.
"Until 1932, each Olympiad had taken place in Europe. Now for the first time, the venue for both winter and summer Games was to be America. The third Olympic Winter Games, in 1932, were held in Lake Placid, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, a town with fewer than 4,000 inhabitants . . . Unfortunately the Games were held in the midst of a worldwide depression and many countries were unable to send well-prepared and equipped teams" (Olympics p. 41). Olympics pl. 25, Art of Skiing p. 123.