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92cm) bobsleighing poster for the fi rst of these, in condition A-, proved particularly desirable and fetched £17,000 on the phone against an £8000-12,000 estimate. This was well above the price realised last year for an identical example with the same condition grade and estimate which achieved £12,000. Despite the lack of snow, a smaller-
sized summer scene at Klosters by Edward Stiefel (1875-1968) from 1926 sold comfortably above estimate at £5000 on the phone and a 1928 Zermatt poster of the Gornergrat railway, winding its way along the ridge of the Pennine Alps, sold for a double-top- estimate £6500, also on the phone. The top lot aside, French posters
struggled in comparison to their Swiss counterparts – over a quarter of the 42 lots failed to sell. Nevertheless, there were a number of solid sales for early designs. A condition B+ example of one of the earliest ski posters by Francisco Tamagno (1851-1933) of the well-known c.1900 Chamonix Mont Blanc couple fl ying down a ski slope with outstretched arms sold just above estimate for £7000; a Jules Abel Faivre (1867-1945) Chamonix poster from 1905 of a female
Left: Charles Kuhn’s St Moritz saxophone snowman sold for £12,000.
Left: The St Moritz
Above: Winter in St Moritz Engadin made £19,000 by Anton Christoffel.
skier on the slopes in a hat and full- length dress fetched a middle-estimate £6000; and Leonetto Cappiello’s (1875-1942) 3ft 2½in x 2ft (98 x 61cm) condition B Superbagnères-Luchon lithograph of a trio of skiers printed by Devambez, Paris in 1929 achieved a low- estimate £4000. Elsewhere in the sale, a 1935 ski
poster by popular German artist Franz Lenhart (1898-1992) for Cortina in Italy triumphed signifi cantly over its £2000- 3000 estimate. Measuring 3ft 3in x 2ft
(99 x 61cm) and in condition A-, it went on to make £10,000 – a record for the artist. There was also keen bidding on
an Austrian design from 1934 for the exclusive ski resort of Lech Arlberg, which sold for a double-top-estimate £6000. Meanwhile, an undated Lufthansa Airline poster by Hans Vogel (1885-?) depicting a passenger plane fl ying low over snow-covered rural Germany, went for almost twice its top estimate to take £5500.
snow hare by Alex Walter Diggelmann made £9500.
Left: an Italian ski poster of Cortina by Franz Lenhart took £10,000.
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