Jun 08, 2006 - Sale 2082

Sale 2082 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 1,265
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ERNEST HAMLIN BAKER
Fortune.

Pen and ink with gouache on thin scratch board cardstock, circa 1930-35. 345x278 mm; 13 1/2x11 inches. Incised signature, lower left.

An unpublished cover study for a magazine by this self-taught illustrator, painter and muralist. Most of his published works were covers for Time Magazine, although he was responsible for 11 covers for Fortune Magazine between 1929 and 1941.