Jul 16, 2020 - Sale 2541
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Sale 2541 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
NICKY ZANN.
"Jack the Ripper." Cover illustration for Jack the Ripper: 100 Years of Investigation by Terence Sharkey (New York: Dorset Press, a division of Marboro Books Corp., 1987). Graphite, India ink, markers, and correction fluid on Bristol board paper. 495x340 mm; 19 1/2x13 1/4 inches, on 22x14 1/4-inch sheet. Signed "Zann" in left center image. Preliminary sketch overlay in graphite and colored pencil hinged to recto.

Zann (1943 - ) is a New York-based artist whose career spans five decades and reaches far and wide across New York's pop and culture scene. Recognized as one of the most innovative and prolific cartoonists and illustrators of his generation, Zann's work has appeared in magazines such as Newsweek, Esquire, Fortune; daily newspapers such as The New York Times; and in comics and on mystery covers. His celebrity caricatures have been featured in ads for ABC, MTV, CBS and NBC networks, as well as for HBO. In the early 1970s, the Disney Corporation endorsed Zann to draw Disney characters, all personally approved by Roy Disney. His work has been exhibited around the world including at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Textile Museum in the Netherlands.
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