Dec 15, 2022 - Sale 2625

Sale 2625 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

JAMES THURBER (1894-1961)

"Lady Macbeth."

Brown and black ink with graphite on paper. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed and titled "Lady Macbeth / Thurber" in lower margin. Matted and framed to 29x22 inches.

A possible sketch for his 1937 New Yorker story about an unidentified narrator and a woman he has recently met, who discuss Shakespeare's play Macbeth, and realize that it contains several unsolved mysteries.