Jan 23, 2014 - Sale 2337

Sale 2337 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
EDWARD GOREY.
Early figure study. Watercolor, pencil, pen and ink on stiff paper. Drawing of a sexy young pin-up style girl in full three-quarter profile wearing a green one-piece bathing suit, cuff bracelet, and high heels. 279x127mm; 11x5 inches. Signed "Gorey" in left margin. Tipped with single piece of archival tape to window mount, glue residue on verso, few minor smudges on recto. Created by Gorey in 1939 while a middle school student before his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago.