Nov 11, 2002 - Sale 1951

Sale 1951 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 3,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ZERMATT. Circa 1910.
55x37 3/4 inches. Richter, Naples.
Condition B+: sharp vertical and horizontal folds; restoration and creases in margins and image.
A previously unrecorded Italian image of the mighty Matterhorn. The pronounced peak straddles the Swiss and Italian borders, but it is mostly the Swiss who have commemorated the mountain via lithography (see lot XXX). This dramatic night image, beneath the starry sky, in sheer size, is likely the largest poster of the mountain ever produced.