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Swann Galleries: Illustration Art

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Auction Name	Illustration Art	Total Sales (USD)	715,017.00
Auction Date	01/28/2021 - 01/28/2021	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	376,960.00
Sale Number	#2556	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	554,290.00
Total Lots	280
Sold Lots	228	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	439,910.00
% of Lots Sold	81.43%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	646,340.00
Unsold Lots	52	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	110.63%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
211	JOSEPH F. KERNAN	"College Football." Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, published October 15, 1932.	1932	USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	USD 75,000.00
216	LESLIE THRASHER	"Conference on the Mound." Cover for The Saturday Evening Post, published June 8, 1912.	1912	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 37,500.00
244	JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER	Golfer Lighting a Cigarette. Probable study for cigarette advertisement, possibly unpublished, circa 1920.	circa 1920.	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 30,000.00
68	EDMUND DULAC	"They overtook him just as he reached the steps of the main porch." Illustration of Fatima's two brothers murdering Bluebeard, for the tale of Bluebeard, published in The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales. From the Old French, retold by Sir Arthur Qu	1910	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 18,750.00
89	ROCKWELL KENT	"Rockwell / Alaska MCMXVIII" Frontispiece illustration to Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska.		USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	USD 15,000.00
199	CHARLES SCHULZ	"I'll have to go back to the house...I forgot my rubbers..." Original 4-panel "Peanuts" comic strip featuring Linus and Lucy,	1960	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 15,000.00
159	CONSTANTIN ALAJALOV	Family Tree. Cover illustration for The New Yorker, published February 12, 1938.	1938	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 11,875.00
222	RUTH EASTMAN	Hitting the Links of Palm Beach. Proposed cover for The Saturday Evening Post, circa mid-1920s.	circa mid-1920s.	USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	USD 11,875.00
124	N.C. WYETH	Captain John Alden / Heading Canto IV. Illustration for page 51 of The Courtship of Miles Standish, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1920	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 11,250.00
158	CHARLES ADDAMS	One Pin. Cartoon for The New Yorker, published June 16, 1962, with their stamp on verso.	1962	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 11,250.00
191	[OTTO MESSMER].	"I'll sneak in and snatch a snooze." * "How can I sleep?" Together, two original "Felix the Cat" Sunday comics, published September 10 and December 24, 1933, respectively, with King Features Syndicate pastedowns.	1933	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 11,250.00
123	N.C. WYETH	Standish Reading / "Heading Canto II". Illustration for page 17 of The Courtship of Miles Standish, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1920	USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	USD 10,000.00
172	BARBARA SHERMUND	A Day at the Beach. Cover for The New Yorker, published August 5, 1944.	1944	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 9,375.00
192	[OTTO MESSMER].	"Shucks!! It's too high for me to reach." * "You've got to be an aviator to hunt for wild geese..." Together, two original "Felix the Cat" Sunday comics, published January 14 and 21, 1934	1934	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 9,375.00
19	BRIAN FROUD	"The Mountain." Published in Once Upon a Time: Some Contemporary Illustrators of Fantasy, by David Larkin	1976, plate 22 and in Fantastic People by Allan Scott	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 8,125.00
218	MICHAEL BROWN	Leven Links.	circa early 20th century.	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 8,125.00
57	FRANKLIN BOOTH	"Mount Holyoke College Today." Illustration for an article of the same title by Charles Selden, published in The Ladies Home Journal, Vol. 43 no. 8, August 1926, page 21.	1926	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 7,280.00
114	NORMAN ROCKWELL	Portrait of Whitney Darrow, Jr. as an old man.		USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 7,250.00
125	N.C. WYETH	Teepees by the Forest / Headpiece Canto VII. Illustration for page 105 of The Courtship of Miles Standish, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1920	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 7,250.00
33	WILLIAM PÈNE DU BOIS	William's Doll. Together, 16 storyboard illustrations for an alternate cover and nearly complete interior pages of book of the same name by Charlotte Zolotow	1972. Watercolor and graphite on paper, most with applied text. Image sizes vary, sheets each measure 275x375 mm; 11x14 3/4 inches. Several signed "William Pène du Bois" in image area. Hinged to boards with paper mattes, with the exception of the alternat	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 7,000.00
11	ERIC CARLE	Black Cat. Collage, ink and gouache on board. 305x241 mm; 12x9 1/2 inches. Signed "Eric Carle" in ink, lower right image and inscribed "For Hens with best wishes!" Hens Gettmer was the publisher of Carle's books in The Netherlands		USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 6,750.00
52	LUDWIG BEMELMANS	Couple in Lamp Light.	[19]33	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 6,750.00
25	EZRA JACK KEATS	Drawing of Peter from The Snowy Day, prominently featured on a charming Typed Letter Signed to a young boy named Matthew.		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 6,500.00
12	ERIC CARLE	"THAT Lion!" A recreation of the lion in Carle's book Do You Want to Be My Friend?	1971. Paper collage with ink, watercolor, chalk, and fixative on board. 280x355 mm; 11x14 inches. Captioned, signed "Eric Carle" and inscribed to a young fan "For Matt with my very best wishes," lower margin.	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 6,250.00
20	BRIAN FROUD	Peering elf. Frontispiece to The Land of Froud, edited by David Larkin	1977. Mixed media with watercolor, graphite, gouache, and ink on paper. 23 1/4x12 1/4 inches	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 6,250.00

<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana Live and Online May 12, 2021

Hindman Auctions, May 12: CURRIER and IVES, publishers -- After Frances F. Palmer. The Rocky Mountains. Emigrants Crossing the Plains, 1866. $10,000 to $15,000.

Hindman Auctions, May 12: [BIBLE, in English]. The New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated faithfully into English. Rheims, 1582. $6,000 to $8,000.

Hindman Auctions, May 12: [BIBLE, in Latin]. Biblia latina. Venice: Franz Renner of Hailbrun [Heilbrunn], 1483. $3,000 to $4,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana Live and Online May 12, 2021

Hindman Auctions, May 12: SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Autograph letter signed ("P. B. S."), to Charles Ollier. Florence, Italy, 15 December 1819. “MY PROMETHEUS IS THE BEST THING I EVER WROTE.” $3,000 to $4,000.

Hindman Auctions, May 12: RAMSAY, David (1749-1815). The History of the Revolution of South-Carolina… Trenton: Isaac Collins, 1785. $3,000 to $4,000.

Hindman Auctions, May 12: [BINDINGS]. MUIR, John (1838-1914). The Writings of John Muir. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1924. 10 vols. $2,000 to $3,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana Live and Online May 12, 2021

Hindman Auctions, May 12: [CHICAGO] -- Park & Guide Map of Chicago. Chicago: Jas. Van Vechten, 1873. $2,000 to $3,000.

Hindman Auctions, May 12: CURRIER and IVES, publishers -- After Frances F. Palmer. $2,000 to $3,000.

Hindman Auctions, May 12: [ALLEN PRESS]. SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Romeo and Juliet. Greenbrae: Allen Press, 1988. $1,000 to $1,500.

<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana Live and Online May 12, 2021

Hindman Auctions, May 12: BEMELMANS, Ludwig (1898-1962). Pencil drawing on paper. 247 x 198 mm, sight, matted and framed. Showing a child shooting at a baby's balloon. $1,000 to $1,500.

Hindman Auctions, May 12: [LOGAN ELM PRESS]. HARVEY, Rebecca. Any Number of Things. Ohio State University, 2013. Single sheet paper scroll. $800 to $1,200.

Hindman Auctions, May 12: BINYON, Laurence (1869-1943). A small archive of letters and pamphlets. $200 to $300.
<center>Sotheby’s Bibliothèque littéraire Hubert Heilbronn 11 May 2021

Sotheby’s May 11: Breton, André. Nadja. Paris, N.R.F., Gallimard, 1928. €15,000 to €20,000.

Sotheby’s May 11: [Stendhal, Henri Beyle dit]. Le Rouge et le Noir, chronique du XIXe siècle. Paris, Levavasseur, 1831. €20,000 to €30,000.

Sotheby’s May 11: Dumas, Alexandre. Les Trois mousquetaires. 1844. 8 vols. In 4. Paris, Baudry, 1844. €30,000 to €50,000.

Sotheby’s May 11: Mallarmé, Stéphane -- Edgar Allan Poe. Les Poèmes d’Edgar Poe. Bruxelles, Edmond Deman, 1888. €18,000 to €25,000.

Sotheby’s May 11: Proust, Marcel. Le côté de Guermantes II. Sodome et Gomorrhe I. [and] Sodome et Gomorrhe II. Paris, N.R.F., 1921 et 1922. €20,000 to €30,000.
Swann Auction Galleries, May 12: Westvaco–Inspirations for Printers, 3 volumes, 1938-61. $200 to $300.

Swann Auction Galleries, May 12: Proef van Letteren, Welk gegooten worden in de Nieuwe Haerlemsche Lettergietery, 1768. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, May 12: Paul Klee, Bauhaus Ausstellung Juli – Sept., Weimar, 1923. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, May 12: Michel Seuphor & Jozef Peeters, Het Overzicht Nos. 22-23-24, Antwerp, 1922. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, May 12: Wolfrum & Co., Modern Graphik, Serie I…, complete portfolio, 1909. $1,200 to $1,800.

Swann Auction Galleries, May 12: Gravure et Fonderie deC. Derriey: Specimen-Album, Paris, 1862. $5,000 to $7,500.

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