?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
HILARY KNIGHT (1926-)
"Tsa the Eunuch." Costume design for an unrealized musical comedy based on "The Shanghai Gesture." Watercolor, crayon and pencil on paper. 610x456 mm; 24x18 inches, sheet. Rubber-stamped "Collection of Hilary Knight," lower right, and with penciled descriptive note and caption to lower right of image reading "Black Leather Straps / Sea Shells / Black Coq Feathers / TSA-The Eunuch."
Knight is most famous for his Eloise children's books but has produced countless other book, magazine, poster, and advertising illustrations over his long career.
Provenance: Collection of the artist; by auction to private collection, California.
