Jun 20, 2024 - Sale 2673

Sale 2673 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
RICHARD ERDOES (1912-2008)
Group of 2 illustrations: Autobahn and Man with Machine. Published in The Lamp magazine, Standard Oil Co., March 1951. Gouache on board. Autobahn: 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches; Man with Machine: 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Unsigned.

Richard Erdoes was an illustrator, photographer and author of books. His detailed, whimsical drawings were published in magazines such as Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated in the 1950s, and later in children's periodicals and books in the 1960s. An assignment for Life in 1967 brought him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and marked the beginning of his fascination with Native American culture, and outrage at the conditions on the reservation. The passion for these subjects led him to the work for which he would be best known: writing histories and stories of the Native American experience.