Saturday, May 13, 2017

Claude: "Honey, I'm Home."

Sometimes eBay sellers are at their best when they offer a bit of unsolicited home decorating advice. For example, an eight-panel original New Yorker cartoon from the late summer of 1950 by Claude Smith depicts a husband coming home from work and greeting his wife at a lakeside summer home. The seller advises that this piece, which is on two sheets, "would look great framed in a vacation cottage on a lake!" To this there is really nothing to add except "or anywhere else."

Leonard Dove, The New Yorker, September 2, 2017

Claude Smith, original art, sheet one of twoThe New Yorker, September 2, 2017, pages 18-19

Claude Smith, original art, sheet two of twoThe New Yorker, September 2, 2017, pages 18-19

Claude Smith, The New Yorker, September 2, 2017, pages 18-19

Verso, sheet one of two

Claude Smith
eBay Listing Ended October 27, 2016 with Best Offer of $90

Claude Smith
eBay Item Description

Reduced from $175 to $135, then purchased with a best offer of $90
Claude Smith, original art, sheet one of twoThe New Yorker, September 2, 2017, pages 18-19
Claude Smith, original art, sheet two of twoThe New Yorker, September 2, 2017, pages 18-19
Sequential drawing by Claude Smith
The New Yorker,
 September 2, 1950, pages 18-19

Note:  The present work is now framed but it has not been relocated to a vacation cottage on a lake.


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