Aug 22, 2024 - Sale 2677

Sale 2677 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 356
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500

PUDGY ROBERTS (DATES UNKNOWN)


3 erotic drawings.
Mixed media including graphite and correction liquid on paper, circa 1970. Two sailors: 15 x 12 1/2 inches. Unsigned. * Male nude: 17 3/4 x 15 inches. Signed in lower left image. * Two men undressing: 17 3/4 x 15 inches. Signed in lower right image. Accompanied by a copy of Pudgy Roberts Presents The Great Female Mimics, January 1973.

Pudgy was a New York-based female impersonator, most famous in the late 1960s. They wrote two novels, Dormitory Mates (1968) and Seafood (1969), edited the monthly magazine "The Great Female Mimics," and wrote a how-to book called The Female Impersonator's Handbook (1967).