ROBERT RIGER. Group of 3 Drawings. Charcoal, pencil and wash on paper. Sizes vary. Each signed. Individually framed. Including: Football. 184x140mm; 7 1/4x5 1/2 inches. Published in the third issue of Sports Illustrated on October 11, 1954. Foxing to matte and verso of image. Dated September 1954 * Rafer Johnson and Yang Chuan Kwang at the 1960 Olympic Decathlon. 229x305mm; 9x12 inches. Nd * "Heavy Lies the Head. . .That Wears Robinson's Crown." Portrait of Rocky Marciano. 311x254 mm; 12 1/4x10 inches. Paper age-toned. Nd.
with-"The Best Football Game Ever Played." Color lithograph. 330x502 mm; 13x19 3/4 inches. Matted and framed. Np, nd. Provenance: This litho and the three originals all ex-collection ABC Sports Television producer Roone Arledge, with an inscription by Riger to Arledge on the print.
