Jun 01, 2023 - Sale 2639

Sale 2639 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
Calder Davidson, Sandra (1935-2022)
Original Notebook and Associated Ephemera.

Large quarto linen-covered sketchbook with hand-painted cover; ffep decoratively lettered by the artist, "This Book is Sandra Calder," containing twenty pages with original drawings in pencil, ink, and gouache, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.

[Together with] a collection of approximately fourteen of Sandra Calder's yearly printed Christmas cards; twenty-eight pages of original pen-and-ink drawings, some with sketches on both sides, to illustrate a book project about a character called Big Big Begonia; a typescript of the accompanying text; [and] approximately thirty loose sheets of paper with sketches, handwritten and typed poetry and other text created by her husband, Jean Davidson.