Jan 28, 2016 - Sale 2403

Sale 2403 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
RONALD SEARLE.
Sleeping Valkyrie. Pen and ink on paper. 343x285 mm; 13 1/2x11 1/4 inches. Signed in image, lower right and with Searle's handstamp and 1987 copyright notice on verso along with crossed out pencil sketch of the standing Valkyrie. Promotional illustration for the Metropolitan Opera House, most likely a promotional item for a forthcoming production of Wagner's Ring Cycle.