Jan 24, 2013 - Sale 2300

Sale 2300 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
WILLIAM E. HILL. Society gents ogling reclining woman.
Mixed media, heightened with white. 365x545 mm; 14 1/4x21 1/2 inches. Signed lower left and dated [19]14. Handsomely matted and framed. Nd.

Additional Details

Hill drew the dust jacket art for the first editions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and Flappers and Philosophers. His work also appeared in Life and Puck and in his own popular weekly page of illustrations, titled "Among Us Mortals," in the Sunday New York Tribune, that ran in the 1920s.