Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 511

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(ROCKWELL, NORMAN.) Huckleberry Finn. 8 color lithographs signed by rockwell, numbered 121/200, and printed on velin d'Arches by Mourlot, Paris. Each measures 25x19 3/4 inches. Folio, plates, contents sheet, title, and colophon laid into publisher's linen folder with ties, lettered in black (with misspelling "Huckelberry" on front cover as issued); plates clean. Published by Raymond & Raymond, Inc., in association with Circle Gallery, Ltd. Claridge 258-60. (New York & Paris), 1972

Additional Details

The images are based on Rockwell's paintings for the Heritage Press edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1940. "Then Miss Watson took me in the closet and prayed"; "Jim got down on his knees"; "Miss Mary Jane"; "My hands shook"; "Your eyes is lookin'"; "Then for three minutes, or maybe four"; "There warn't no harm in them"; and "When I lit my candle."