Feb 08, 2024 - Sale 2658

Sale 2658 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

ROBERT CRUMB (1943- )


Gee Whiz.
Pen and ink on paper. 214x168 mm, 8½x6½ inches. Unsigned. Circa 1960.

Incorporating Crumb's signature crosshatching style, the sketch appears to be an early and more subdued version of the artist's "ideal woman."

Possibly Crumb was inspired by "Gee Whiz!" a humor magazine of soft, erotic "Cartoons, Screamers and Peak-a-Beauts," published between 1955 and 1969.