Jun 24, 2021 - Sale 2574

Sale 2574 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
RUBE GOLDBERG (1883-1970)
Group of three Cold War-era political cartoons. Together, group of 3 political cartoons for unknown publications, each with "Lang Co, Inc. Photoengravers" stamp on verso. Ink, conté crayon, and gouache on paper. Each approximately 350x280 mm; 13 3/4x11 inches, on 18 1/4x14 1/4-inch sheets. Each signed "Rube Goldberg," the first two in lower left image, the third in lower right image. All captioned in upper margin, though two are crossed out. Cornered to boards with mattes and framed.

Provenance: Swann Auction Galleries, January 23, 2014, lot 90; current owner.

The group includes: "They're Not So Particular" * "Sole Power to Declare War" * "The Great British-Soviet Get-Together Act."