EDWARD GOREY Cat in a Portable Niche

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EDWARD GOREY.
Cat in a Portable Niche. Pen, ink, and watercolor. Drawing #36 from the exhibition "Plain & Coloured Drawings by Edward Gorey," at The Graham Gallery, New York City, 1974. 89x102 mm; 3 1/4x4 inches, image. Inscribed "For Burt & Korbus" and signed in full, in pencil, lower margin. Remnants of masking tape along top edge verso.

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Not since his first public art exhibition which took place at the Mandrake Book Shop near Harvard in the early 1950s did Gorey create illustrations without a specific work or commission in mind. But in 1974, he drew new works solely intended for a gallery exhibition which was being organized by The Graham Gallery in Manhattan. Gorey created 46 original pieces of art for the show which was called Plain & Coloured Drawings by Edward Gorey. In an interview from 1977 he stated that the exhibition was a unique experience for him and a rare treat for his admirers--Wilkin, Karen; editor, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey, New York, 2001. A 4-page gallery booklet was printed listing the drawings, illustrating five of the pieces, and including a short essay by Brendan Gill about Gorey's work. The show was successful enough that Graham featured Mr. Gorey again in 1975.