JULES FEIFFER Fred Astaire

Sale 2337 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 1,375

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

FEIFFER PAINTS HIS INSPIRATION JULES FEIFFER.
Fred Astaire. Ink and wash on paper. 280x134 mm; 11x5 1/4 inches, image. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right, archivally framed and matted. From the estate of Laughlin Phillips, director of the Phillips Collection in Washington from 1979-2001 to the current owner. 1996.

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Feiffer has noted: "I have always loved Fred Astaire as a model, inspiration, and someone I wanted to emulate in my drawings . . . I started to draw [Astaire], putting down lines, and my attempt was to make dance on paper. Fred was my partner, my inspiration. Fred led. I followed"--American Pictures interview with Feiffer 30 April, 2010 (Smithsonian American Art Museum).