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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ROBERT W. RICHARDS (1941-2019)
Two Succulent Sailor drawings. Succulent Sailor III * Succulent Sailor IV Both brush and pen and ink on transparency mounted in a wove paper folder. Both 435x360 mm; 17x14 inches. Both signed with initials in ink, lower right recto, and titled in ink on the paper folder.
Provenance: Private collection, New York.
Richards began his career as an illustrator in New York, sketching fashion collections for newspapers and beauty illustrations for brands such as L'Oréal and Revlon. He went on to create posters and illustrations for Broadway shows including Noel Coward‘s Present Laughter and Legs Diamond, one of the many shows he worked on for Peter Allen. A friend to many musicians, he created album cover art for Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Dinah Shore, and Peggy Lee. He devoted his last years to drawing gay erotic art both as fine art and for illustrations in Mandate and other publications. In 2018, he was featured in a Kate Spade advertising campaign along with other celebrities such as Jourdan Dunn, Iris Apfel, and Jon Batisste.
