Cats celebrate Christmas with champagne and conversation in Ronald Searle's 2002 cover proposal for The New Yorker. The idea, which Searle called a "New Yorker cover project," was rejected by the magazine, although the rough did very well six years later in the art auction market. It's a delightful image, but by 2002 Searle art hadn't been on The New Yorker's cover for ten years and it wouldn't be again. By this time the magazine was looking mostly for covers which made more pointed or political statements.
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| Ronald Searle Christie's South Kensington, July 29, 2008, Lot 17 |
Note: It's Ronald Searle's centenary. Feel free to celebrate by sending images of original Searle art to Attempted Bloggery for posting. And he would want you to have a glass of champagne too.
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