Jan 28, 2021 - Sale 2556

Sale 2556 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DAVID LEVINE (1926-2009)
Group of 3 cartoons featuring John F. Kennedy. Pen and ink on paper, early 1960s. Each on an unevenly clipped sheet slightly larger than sight size and quite toned. Kennedy seated in a rocking chair with John McCone whispering in his ear: 85x104 mm; 3 1/2x4 inches. Signed and dated "D. Levine `62"; Kennedy and Khrushchev playing a game of international relations chess while swatting away flies with the faces of foreign leaders including Gamal Nassar and George Pompidou. 112x123 mm; 4 1/2x4 3/4 inches. Unsigned; Kennedy and Khrushchev as cold war missiles facing off. 93x110 mm; 3 1/2x4 1/4 inches. Initialed "D. L." in lower right image. Not dated.

Provenance: Ex-collection private collection, New York, a relative of the artist; thence by descent, private collection, New York.