Dec 15, 2022 - Sale 2625

Sale 2625 - Lot 209

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

ROBERT GROSSMAN (1940-2018)

"Wales Beached in New York."

Cover illustration of The New York Observer, published November 5, 2005. Airbrush and ink on Bristol Board. 240x210 mm; 9 1/2x8 1/4 inches, sight. Initialed "R.G." in lower left image, captioned and dated in pencil, lower margin; verso with artist's stamp, copyright statement, date, and description.

Robert Grossman was a prolific creator across all media, including painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and author, in addition to his work as a caricaturist and political cartoonist. From the 1960s until his death in 2018, his illustrations appeared on the covers and within the pages of such magazines and newspapers as The New York Times, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Nation, The New Yorker and The New York Observer.