Jun 05, 2018 - Sale 2480

Sale 2480 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
HEIDI GOENNEL.
"Wild Flowers." Cover for The New Yorker, published July 29, 1985; in 2001, Saks Fifth Avenue teamed up with the New Yorker Festival to reproduce this image as a three-dimensional installation in one of their storefront windows. Felt-tipped marker on paper. 305x229 mm; 12x9 inches, on 14 3/4x12-inch sheet. Signed in lower right image. Hinged to matte.
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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 kid's TV show in Japan.