Dec 16, 2021 - Sale 2592

Sale 2592 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 1,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
RICHARD TAYLOR (1902-1970)
"I said, please don't feel it's necessary to make conversation." * "We'd better get our stories straight, the Fuerer's [sic] going to be mad as hell!" * "Of course I'm thinking out loud, but why don't we just quit." Together, group of three war-related cartoons for The New Yorker, with their stamps and inventory numbers on versos, published June 14, 1941, April 10, 1943, and July 22, 1944, respectively. Pen, ink, and wash on board, heightened in white. The first is 415x290 mm; 16 1/2x11 1/2 inches, on 19 1/2x15-inch board. Signed "R. Taylor" in lower right image. The second is 400x280 mm; 15 3/4x11 inches, on 20x15-inch board. Signed "R. Taylor" in lower right image and captioned in graphite in lower margin. Published caption differs, reading "We damn well better get our stories straight now. This is going to be hard to explain to das Hauptquartier." The third is 330x270 mm; 12 3/4x10 3/4, on 20x15-inch board. Signed "R. Taylor" in upper left image and captioned in graphite in lower margin. Published caption differs, reading "Of course, I'm merely thinking out loud, but why don't we just quit?"