Sep 29, 2016 - Sale 2423

Sale 2423 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 3,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
WILLIAM PÈNE DU BOIS and RAOUL PÈNE DU BOIS.
"Tights and Makeup." Together, 21 circus-themed illustrations for an unpublished book featuring clowns, muscle men, and acrobats, 6 of which are by Raoul and 15 by William which were included in "A Taste for Adventure: The Art of William Pène du Bois," at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, December 2015-May 2016. Watercolor, pen, and ink on boards. 127x127 mm; 5x5 inches, on 6x6-inch boards. All initialed with captions on verso. Hinged to window mattes uniformly and attractively displayed in three frames, with Kendra Krienke Gallery labels on veros. Nd, circa 1935.