Jun 09, 2022 - Sale 2608

Sale 2608 - Lot 211

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(THE NEW YORKER) MISCHA RICHTER (1910-2001)

Death and Taxes.

Cartoon for The New Yorker, published April 9, 1990, with their stamp on verso. Pen, ink, and wash on paper. 225x300 mm; 9x11 3/4 inches. Framed. Signed "Richter" in lower right image.
Ukrainian-American cartoonist Richter was a regular contributor to The New Yorker as well as numerous other magazines and daily newspapers. His early satirical and political work was featured in New Masses in the 1930s when he also created WPA murals. His good friend and classmate at that time was American painter Will Barnet, whose sister Richter married.