Sixty years after its first publication, Christie's put a classic New Yorker original cartoon by Charles Addams up on the auction block. Failing to note where and when it was published, Christie's mistook its year of publication for its year of execution. In order to be published in the January 3, 1959 issue of the magazine, it would have to have been executed in 1958 or perhaps slightly earlier. But no matter. It's a wonderful cartoon anachronism, and one of Renaissance man Addams's best efforts.
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| "That? Oh, that's nothing. Just something I was fooling around with." Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, January 3, 1959, page 29 |
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| Charles Addams Christie's June 3, 2019 |
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| Spot drawing by Saul Steinberg and Cartoon by Charles Addams https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1959-01-03/flipbook/028/ |
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| Composition in White, Black, and Red (Paris, 1936) Piet Mondrian Museum of Modern Art, New York |
Addams isn't the only cartoonist on this page of The New Yorker playing games with time.
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| Saul Steinberg |
Note: I have been unable to identify Addams's source for the Madonna and Child painting. Please let me know if you recognize it.
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