?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
EVERETT SHINN Polly of the Circus.
Pencil on illustration board, circa 1932. 300x395 mm; 12x15 1/2 inches. Annotated and ink stamped lower margin recto. Ex-collection Sylvan Cole Gallery, New York.
A set design for the same-titled movie starring Marion Davies, as Polly the circus performer, and Clark Gable as Reverend John Hartley, who falls in love with and secretly marries Polly while she is recouperating at his home from a circus injury. Hartley's congregation later finds out about the marriage and fires the reverend, at which point Polly decides to leave in order for him to win back his congregation.
