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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CHARLES SAXON (1920-1988) Practice Swing. Cover illustration study for The New Yorker, published April 18, 1970. Charcoal and watercolor on paper laid to thin board. 343x248 mm; 13 1/2x9 3/4 inches, laid to 19 1/4x16-inch board. Signed "Saxon" in lower right image. Hinged to matte; framed. A tear sheet of the printed cover accompanies the lot.
Provenance: Swann Galleries, June 4, 2019, Lot 196; thence to Dick McDonough.
The final study for Saxon's well-known cover of a man eagerly anticipating that first game of the season.
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