Jun 05, 2018 - Sale 2480

Sale 2480 - Lot 241

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
HEIDI GOENNEL.
"Fish Tank." Cover illustration for The New Yorker, published May 12, 1985, with their copyright label on verso. Acrylic on canvas board. 311x235 mm; 12 1/4x9 1/4 inches, on 16x12-inch board. Signed in lower right image.

Additional Details

Goennel's work for The New Yorker started as spot drawings and later grew to include covers. These led to a successful career as a children's book author and illustrator. Her illustrations have appeared on cards for MoMA and other museums as well as publications in Asia, including the animation of one of her books for a Japanese children's television show.