Jun 24, 2021 - Sale 2574

Sale 2574 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 715
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ROBERT HILBERT (20th Century)
"We could make a fortune." Illustration for the story "Very Good for Nothing" by Jeremy Gury, published in Redbook magazine, July 1952, pages 26-27. Mixed media, including gouache, graphite, colored pencil, and correction fluid on board. 415x457 mm; 16 1/4x18 inches, on 17x18 3/4-inch board. Signed "Rob Hilbert," in graphite, in upper right image. A copy of the double-paged tear sheet accompanies the lot.

The full caption reads: "'I feel a great idea coming upon me,' said Dunk. 'We could make a fortune.'"