Mar 21, 2017 - Sale 2440

Sale 2440 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
MARILEE HEYER.
"Monkey, Come to Me." Illustration from page 16 Heyer's book "The Girl, the Fish, and the Crown" (New York: Viking, 1995.) Watercolor and pencil on paper. 385x285 mm; 15x11 1/4 inches. Signed and dated 1994 in image, lower right. Archivally taped around circumference to board which is titled and signed on verso.

Additional Details

This fantastical scene shows the shape-shifting protagonist as she transforms herself into a monkey by chanting "Monkey, come to me" so that she can swing through the evil giant's window to seek the hidden stolen crown.