This vintage original artwork by Peter Arno was offered on eBay for $3,000. It's a great cartoon but it has some condition problems, namely fading and yellowing. It ended up selling with the Make Offer feature for a respectable $2,600.
This piece came to market back in 2007 at Alex Cooper Auctioneers of Towson, Maryland with a preposterously low estimate of $100 - $150.
Peter Arno was born on this day in 1904 as Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr.
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"I'd starve first!"
Peter Arno
Original art
The New Yorker, January 10, 1953, p. 29 |
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"I'd starve first!"
Peter Arno
Original art
The New Yorker, January 10, 1953, p. 29 |
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Detail
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Peter Arno's signature
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"I'd starve first!"
Peter Arno Original art The New Yorker, January 10, 1953, p. 29
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Peter Arno eBay winning bid
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"I'd starve first!"
Peter Arno
Original art
The New Yorker, January 10, 1953, p. 29 |
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| Alex Cooper Auctioneers Exhibition and Auction |
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| Alex Cooper Auctioneers 2007, Lot 1351 Estimate |
March 17, 2017 Update: This post has been updated to reflect the cartoon's publication in the New Yorker of January 10, 1953.
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"I'd starve first!"
Peter Arno
Original art
The New Yorker, January 10, 1953, p. 29
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"I'd starve first!"
Peter Arno
The New Yorker, January 10, 1953, p. 29 |
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With a spot drawing of a boxer training by Abe Birnbaum and a cartoon by Peter Arno
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March 14, 2026 Update: The drawing appeared in Arno's 1956 collection Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad.
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"I'd starve first!"
Peter Arno
Peter Arno's Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad (Simon and Schuster, 1956), p. 100
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A boxer in training
Abe Birnbaum
The New Yorker, January 10, 1953, p. 28
Image added March 15, 2026
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