May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
GOREY, EDWARD. POSTERS. Group of 9 posters from Cape Cod's Cotuit Center for the Arts and a few other theaters. Gorey's designs and, in most cases, lettering for various theater productions. Average size 434x280 mm; 17x11 inches, all signed and most numbered by Gorey. Cotuit, Bourne, Woods Hole, 1990s-2000

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Magical Oysters Theatre, Woods Hole: Lost Shoelaces, Devised and Designed by Edward Gorey, August 1987, signed Theater on the Bay, Bourne: Chinese Gossip, QRV, July-August 1994, signed; Stumbling Christmas, by Gorey, Nov-December 1995. Signed and numbered 37/100 by Gorey Cape Museum of Fine Arts: An Etceterist Entertainment Devised by Edward Gorey . . . Omlet: or, Poopies Dallying by Sir Francis Bacon, etc., July-August, 1998. Signed and numbered 42/100 by Gorey Cotuit Center for the Arts: Shakespeare's Hamlet. Set designed by Gorey., nd. Signed and numbered 82/100 by Gorey; We Were Dancing, by Sir Noël Coward and The Twelve Pound-Look by Sir James Barrie, nd. Signed and numbered 41/50 by Gorey; Epistolary Play by Gorey, July-August 1997, signed and numbered 54/100; The Whistling Pig, A Murder Mystery --- Or Is It? July 1999. Signed and numbered 48/50 by Gorey; The White Canoe: An Opera Seria for Hand Puppets, libretto by Edward Gorey. September, 2000. Unsigned as Gorey had died in April.