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WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) "Amoré."
Illustration from an un unpublished edition of Sindbad the Sailor. Gouache on board, 1932. 300x223 mm; 11 3/4x8 3/4 inches, image. Signed "Witold Gordon" in lower right image. Matted and framed to 19 1/4x16 1/4 inches.
In 1932, Gordon created an exceptional set of illustrations for a planned book of The Travels of Sinbad. However, on the heels of the Great Depression, the book was never published and the illustrations stayed together in his private archive until his death.
Witold Gordon was a Polish-born American Art Deco painter best known for his murals in Radio City Music Hall completed in 1932. He painted a 6,000 square foot mural for the 1939 New York World's Fair and a series of New Yorker covers depicting the city in its recent past. He also designed the poster for the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1943).
