The Visit of the Magic Eyeball back in 1970. Searle's dark, morbidly surrealistic vision couldn't have done much for his print sales, especially when collectors could instead opt for his fanciful cats, yet he somehow expected to sell 99 of these. His imposing, overwrought cityscapes frequently reflected obvious environmental concerns, but this print could equally be the expression of a sort of comic horror about the surveillance state. How well this edition sold when originally published is probably unknowable, but at auction earlier this month a single lithograph certainly failed to find a buyer.
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| The Visit of the Magic Eyeball Ronald Searle Lithograph in black, violet, pink, and olive green Gurlitt 52 No. 13/99, 1970 |
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| The Visit of the Magic Eyeball Ronald Searle Lithograph in black, violet, pink, and olive green Gurlitt 52 No. 13/99, 1970 |
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| Ronald Searle's signature |
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| Verso |
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| Ronald Searle Rachel Davis Fine Arts August 13, 2022, lot 355 |
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No sale!
It's interesting that the Gurlitt catalogue assigned this print a date of 1969 when Searle clearly signed it in 1970.
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| Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt catalogue no. 52 |
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| Presale bidding on lots 355 and 354 |
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