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Swann Galleries: Illustration Art

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Auction Name Illustration Art Total Sales (USD) 666,780.00
Auction Date June 04, 2019 - June 04, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 356,000.00
Sale Number #2511 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 524,450.00
Total Lots 205
Sold Lots 154 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 459,300.00
% of Lots Sold 75.12% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 678,550.00
Unsold Lots 51 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 98.27%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
99 AL HIRSCHFELD.

Paul Robeson as Othello. Illustration for the 1943 Broadway revival of Shakespeare's tragic play

 1961 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 68,750.00
104 JO MIELZINER.

Pet Shop Drop. Backdrop design for Act One, Scene Two of the 1940 Broadway production of Pal Joey

 1940 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 55,000.00
77 MEAD SCHAEFFER.

He raised a gull-like cry in the air. 'There she blows - there she blows! A hump like a snowhill! It is Moby Dick!'

1922 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 50,000.00
90 MIRIAM TROOP.

Rain on Laundry Day. Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, published June 15, 1940.

 1940 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 40,000.00
100 AL HIRSCHFELD.

The Merry Widow. Illustration for the musical comedy at the Majestic Theatre, New York

 1943 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,000.00
119 LEE BROWN COYE.

Weird Tales Vol. 40, No. 3. Cover illustration for the 25th anniversary issue of the fantasy and horror pulp magazine

1948 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 18,750.00
43 FREDERIC REMINGTON.

A Halt to Tighten the Packs.

 1889 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 17,500.00
79 MEAD SCHAEFFER.

Tombarel in his Three Musketeers fashion bestowed on her his encomium. Illustration for "A Tale of Tombarel's Past" by William J. Locke,

1930 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,250.00
162 CHARLES SCHULZ.

Never!! Never in ten thousand million billion years! Original "Peanuts" cartoon featuring Schroeder and Lucy

 1956 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 16,250.00
187 EDWARD GOREY.

Cat Fancy. Cover illustration for The New Yorker, published Dec 10, 2018, with their stamp, dated 1993, on verso.

 2018 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,250.00
15 LUDWIG BEMELMANS.

So hounds won't know which way he went. Illustration for "Welcome Home" by Ludwig Bemelmans

1960 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 15,000.00
155 WINSOR McCAY.

Old Death Grins at Them. Editorial cartoon published in the Hamilton Evening Journal, February 8, 1930.

 1930 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,350.00
1 CHARLES ADDAMS.

Morticia in the Market for Arsenic. Likely an advertisement for Abercrombie & Fitch.

 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 11,875.00
86 SAUL TEPPER.

`Dearest, I'm Glover McKay.' he said. `The man you shot is a man from Texas, they say. Why did you want to kill me?' Story illustration for "Who Kissed Me?" by Dixie Willson

 1929 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 11,050.00
139 EDWARD GOREY.

Two Russians at Easter Tea. Unpublished illustration, circa 1949-1951.

 circa 1949-1951. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,000.00
87 SAUL TEPPER.

Change of Heart. Illustration for an unidentified story in The American Magazine, circa 1933.

 circa 1933. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,375.00
96 FREDERICK COOPER.

Fashion Number. Cover illustration for a special issue of LIFE magazine

 1927 USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,375.00
2 CHARLES ADDAMS.

Fester shopping for Knives. Likely an advertisement for Abercrombie & Fitch.

 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,750.00
188 EDWARD GOREY.

Flappers and Topiary. Proposed cover for The New Yorker, published as a memorial Postscript, May 8, 2000, with their stamp dated 1993 on verso.

 2000 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,125.00
133 RICHARD POWERS.

Star Science Fiction Stories. Rear cover illustration for the first book of the popular anthology series by Frederik Pohl

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,500.00
140 CHARLES ADDAMS.

How many times have I told you -- always read the labels. Cartoon commissioned by McClure Syndicate of the North American Newspaper Alliance in September of 1956

 1956 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,500.00
75 TOM LOVELL.

Saratoga Trunk. Illustration for the Warner Brothers' film of the same name starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, 1945.

 1945 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,020.00
85 ARTHUR SZYK.

The Lord's Prayer. Illustration published in the January 1946 edition of Coronet magazine, appearing on the inside front cover.

 1946 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,750.00
49 ISABEL BISHOP.

Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth. A 1940s study for "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

1976 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,500.00
183 CHARLES ADDAMS.

Mini Mail Truck. Cartoon for The New Yorker, published July 26, 1976; subsequently published in "Creature Comforts"

1981 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,000.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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