Dec 15, 2022 - Sale 2625

Sale 2625 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

SAM NORKIN (1917-2011)

"Long Day's Journey into Night."

Caricature illustration of the cast of the original Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Tony Award-winning play. Ink and wash on board, 1956. 435x558 mm; 17 1/4x22 inches. Signed "Norkin - New Haven" in lower right image. Archivally matted and framed to 24x28 inches.

Provenance: John Chapman, theater critic for the New York Daily News; thence by descent; private collection, Colorado.

Long Day's Journey into Night enjoyed 390 performances from November 1956 to March 1958 at the Helen Hayes Theatre and won the 1957 Tony Award for Best Play. Depicted here is its main cast: (from left to right) Florence Eldridge, Bradford Dillman, Jason Robards and Frederic March. All four were nominated for awards, with March winning the Tony for best actor, and Robards and Dillman winning the Theatre World award. In addition, O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.