JANE BRESKIN ZALBEN She cut bright flat shapes bursting with

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JANE BRESKIN ZALBEN.
"She cut bright flat shapes bursting with bold colors." Watercolor on paper with collage. 83x89 mm; 3 1/4x3 1/2 inches on 12x9 inch paper. Signed in pencil, lower right margin; verso contains Zalben's notes and placement indications as well as taped laser printed text appearing on the final sheet. Corners tissue taped to back board. Printed on page 14 of "Mousterpiece: A Mouse-Sized Guide to Modern Art," New York: Neal Porter/Roaring Brook Press, 2012.

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Zalben's recent book "Mousterpiece" was a runaway hit, especially at museums where art programs for children used the story of a small mouse named Janson (after art historian H. W. Janson) to introduce them the modern masters. Janson lives in a museum and learns to paint in the style of Albers, Rousseau, Warhol, Picasso and others until she creates her own original work, her "mousterpiece," and thus "arriving" as an artist. In this spread she is cutting out collage pieces imitating Matisse's paper cut-outs, for what becomes her version of his "Icarus" (see next lot).