Jan 22, 2015 - Sale 2372

Sale 2372 - Lot 152

Price Realized: $ 12,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ROCKWELL KENT.
Frontispiece from the Lakeside Press Moby Dick. Pen and ink on paper. 79x124 mm; 3 1/8x4 7/8 inches. Frontispiece to Volume 2 of the 3-volume Lakeside Press edition of Moby Dick or, The Whale, Chicago, 1930. Signed in pencil lower right Mounted to board and archivally matted.

Additional Details

A beautiful original pen and ink drawing from one of Kent's most important illustrated works and among the most memorable artistic renderings of Herman Melville's masterpiece.