AL PARKER. "Have you never discovered, Secretary, how expensive it is to love a virtuous woman?" Illustration for part two of "Then and Now..." by William Somerset Maugham, published in Cosmopolitan magazine, June 1946. Gouache over graphite on board. 385x485 mm; 15 1/4x19 1/2 inches, on 18x23 1/4-inch board. Signed "A. Parker" in lower left image. Some foxing and minor surface abrasions with printer's marks and adhesive residue in margins. Taped to window matte and framed.
