Jan 22, 2015 - Sale 2372

Sale 2372 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
AL HIRSCHFELD.
"Scratch." Pen and ink drawing on illustration board, showing Patrick Hagee as Daniel Webster pleading his case before a judge and jury conjured up by the devil "Scratch" (Will Geer). 558x760 mm; 22x30 inches. Signed "Hirschfeld 3" and captioned by him, lower right. Published in the New York Times, May 2, 1971.

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An ambitious play written by Archibald MacLeish, based on Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster."