Mar 12, 2009 - Sale 2173

Sale 2173 - Lot 351

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION.) Hirschfeld, Al. T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral. Original pen-and-ink drawing of Eliot striding across a lawn while holding a tall thin cross in his left hand and a crown on a platter in his right hand, a small sign indicating the direction to Mayfair in ground near his feet. 305x200 mm; 12x7 7/8 inches, with thin black border with 2-mm margins on trimmed sheet of Bainbridge Illustration Board, tipped to mat. signed by hirschfeld, bottom left, lightly browned, image still bright, touches of China white at upper border, hairline diagonal crack at bottom right corner into blank portion of image. Np, circa 1935
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An early Hirschfeld image (not signed with "Ninas") and apparently not reproduced. Likely created for The New York Times Book Review.