Jan 22, 2015 - Sale 2372

Sale 2372 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
RICHARD TAYLOR.
'It's over there, Madam, right under the woman with the big feet." Pen, ink, and wash on board. 482x381 mm; 19x15 inches, board. Published in The New Yorker, May 11, 1946. Signed in image, upper right. The New Yorker stamp and notes on verso. A fun poke at Diego Rivera murals in civic buildings.

Additional Details

with--5 pencil cartoon roughs on paper, all about modern art. Two for Playboy magazine; the others likely for The New Yorker, but not dated. All signed in the image. Average sheet size 432x355 mm; 17x14 inches. "I wouldn't Know -- I'm a leg-man myself." "For posing, my terms are a dollar an hour, room and board." Both marked "Done. OK color Playboy." Others: " . . . Let me see -- I think that was the year I was crossed in love by that football halfback" 2 different images both captioned: "It's `Winkie' against the world now -- but then, that's what he's always wanted." Featuring a tormented Picasso imitator.