Jun 09, 2022 - Sale 2608

Sale 2608 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

EDWARD SHENTON (1895-1977)

Group of 7 illustrations for F. Scott Fitzgerald novels including "Tender is the Night."

Tender is the Night published in Scribner's Magazine Volume 95, January-April 1934. Other stories unidentified. Pen and ink on board. Sizes vary, the smallest measuring 140x110 mm; 5 1/2x4 1/4 inches, the largest at 8 1/2x11 1/2 inches. Unsigned, but with several penciled marginal publishing indications and measurements, only one partially captioned. Each float mounted and framed in glass and brown wood to 17x14 1/2 inches, the largest.