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SAM COBEAN. "Bubble Soap." A humorous cartoon depicting the artistic process of a musician. Pen, ink, and watercolor on board. 381x254 mm; 15x10 inches, on 17 1/4x11 1/2-inch board. Signed "Cobean" in lower right. Registration marks in margins. Archivally taped to window matte and framed. Nd. Provenance: From the Estate of Frank Modell.
Cobean (1913-1951) was known for popularizing the "thought bubble" cartoon of which this lot is a classic example. He was brought to The New Yorker in 1944 by his friend, Charles Addams, with whom he worked illustrating training pamphlets for the Army Signal Corps. Cartoons by Cobean, especially those in color, are difficult to come by as the illustrator suffered an untimely death a few years later at the age of 37.
