Jun 09, 2022 - Sale 2608

Sale 2608 - Lot 165

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

JAMES MCMULLAN (1934-)

"Rehearsal Chairs."

Study for the Lincoln Center Theater mural for the 65th Street entrance, 1994. Watercolor with hand-lettering in gouache on paper. 140x635 mm; 5 1/2x25 inches on 8 1/4x27-inch sheet. Signed "McMullan `90" in lower right image and with artist's label on frame verso. Tipped to window matte and framed to 14x33 inches.
In 1990, McMullan used this image to create a sixty-foot mural on the 65th Street entry hall to the Vivian Beaumont and Mitzi Newhouse Theatres at Lincoln Center.
McMullan's illustrations have appeared in Esquire, Rolling Stone, Time, and New York Magazine. Since 1986 he has been the lead designer and principal artist for the Lincoln Center Theaters and has created nearly one hundred of their iconic posters.