Jan 22, 2015 - Sale 2372

Sale 2372 - Lot 189

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
CHARLES ADDAMS.
Untitled cartoon. Pencil illustration on board showing a witch presenting a mattress to a bank teller. Study for the cartoon published in the February 5, 1938 issue of The New Yorker ("I'd like to make a deposit"). 210x815 mm; 8 1/4x7 1/4 inches. Signed in pencil, lower left. Full horizontal crease along bottom just touching signature, moderate overall age toning. Nd.

Additional Details

The work also appeared on page 22 of "Drawn and Quartered" published by Random House, October 1942.