The December 6 Interiors sale at Christie's South Kensington featured two lots by British caricaturist Gerald Scarfe, who ranks among his chief artistic influences Ronald Searle and Walt Disney.
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Gerald Scarfe (b.1936)
'I don't want anymore!'
signed 'Gerald Scarfe' (upper left) and inscribed as titled (lower centre)
pen and black ink, unframed
6½ x 9¾ in. (16.5 x 24.8 cm.); Eight unframed cartoons by the same hand; and Two unframed cartoons by other hands (11)
Price Realized
£2,125
- ($3,315)
- Sales totals are hammer price plus buyer’s premium and do not reflect costs, financing fees or application of buyer’s or seller’s credits.
Estimate
£800 - £1,200
- ($1,250 - $1,874)
Sale Information
6 December 2011
London, South Kensington
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite"). If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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Gerald Scarfe (b. 1936)
The busy penguin
inscribed 'For/Christopher/Happy Birthday/27th June 1989/To a new era!' (centre right)
pen and black ink and watercolour with touches of bodycolour
32 5/8 x 23 in. (83 x 58.5 cm.)
Price Realized
£875
- ($1,365)
- Sales totals are hammer price plus buyer’s premium and do not reflect costs, financing fees or application of buyer’s or seller’s credits.
Estimate
£800 - £1,200
- ($1,250 - $1,874)
Sale Information
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite"). If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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