Jan 23, 2014 - Sale 2337

Sale 2337 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 1,152
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JAZZ AGE FAVE WILLIAM E. HILL.
Wedding night jitters. Gouache and pastel on board. 410x550 mm; 16x21 1/2 inches.Signed lower left and dated [19]15. Not examined out of frame.

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.