Dec 15, 2022 - Sale 2625

Sale 2625 - Lot 251

Price Realized: $ 3,900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000

JAMES THURBER (1894-1961) (THE NEW YORKER)

"Her Maid Told Ours That She Has a Red Heart Tattooed Above Her Knee."

Cartoon for The New Yorker, published April 25, 1936. Ink on paper. 223x300 mm; 8 3/4x11 3/4. Signed "James Thurber" lower left and captioned along bottom edge. Hinged to matte.

The published caption changed "knee" to the more intriguingly placed "hip."