WILLARD MULLIN Bouncing Boys The Derby

Sale 2372 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 250

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Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350

WILLARD MULLIN.
"Bouncing Boys / The Derby" Charcoal, pen and ink. 578x362 mm; 22 3/4x14 1/2 inches. Cartoon about the Kentucky Derby showing 10 jockeys being bucked off the back of "The Derby" horse, printed in the World Telegram. Signed in ink, as part of the grass beneath the horse. Few printing indications in recto margins, verso contains a rough, partial sketch of a man's face and instructions to "please rush" the piece via Western Union telegraph messenger to Sports Editor Sal Gerage. 1965.

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Willy Shoemaker, jockey #8 in the cartoon, took the 1965 Kentucky Derby on Lucky Debonair. Salvatore Gerage, noted New York Sports Editor of The Post, was working for the World Telegram in 1965.