Jun 24, 2021 - Sale 2574
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Sale 2574 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JOHN FALTER (1910-1982)
"Commuters in the Rain." Preliminary sketch and supporting material for cover of The Saturday Evening Post, published October 7, 1961. Mixed media, including pen, ink, watercolor, and gouache on board. 340x270 mm; 13 1/2x10 3/4 inches. Unsigned.

The lot includes:

Three preliminary sketches in graphite on stiff vellum in various sizes, the largest is 760x570; 30x22 1/2-inches (sheet). One signed "John Falter" at lower left.

Eleven sheets with rough sketches in various media, including pen, ink, marker, and graphite. Image sizes vary, with each sheet measuring about 350x275 mm; 13 1/2x10 3/4 inches. All unsigned.

Approximately fifty preparatory photographs to aid in Falter's composition. Each 125x180 mm; 5x7 inches. Primary subjects include the Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania train station and figures posed as if running in the rain. Some photographs have accompanying negatives.

Five printed tear sheets of magazine advertisements picturing various contemporary cars also accompany the lot.

Falter was a prolific illustrator and is best known for his more than 120 covers produced for The Saturday Evening Post. He received commissions for other leading publications of the day, including Esquire, McCall's, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Life, and Look. This archive, with its conceptual photographs and corresponding sketches with varying stages of detail, give insight into Falter's working process as he developed compositions over time.
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