For me, the highlight of yesterday's Illustration Art Signature Auction at Heritage was an original Charles Addams New Yorker cartoon featuring four of his Addams Family characters. Today we know them as Pugsley, Wednesday, Morticia, and Gomez, but they were as yet unnamed in 1951. Morticia prepares to use the camera to photograph the children. Helpfully, she instructs them how to pose.
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| "All right, children, a nice big sneer, now." Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, June 9, 1951, p. 37 Charles Addams, Homebodies (1954) Charles Addams, My Crowd (1970) |
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| "All right, children, a nice big sneer, now." Charles Addams Framed original art The New Yorker, June 9, 1951, p. 37 Charles Addams, Homebodies (1954) Charles Addams, My Crowd (1970) |
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| Charles Addams Heritage Auctions listing accessed April 2, 2023, twenty-three days before the auction |
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| Charles Addams Heritage Auctions item description |
The sale price including the 25% buyer's premium:
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| "All right, children, a nice big sneer, now." Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, June 9, 1951, p. 37 Charles Addams, Homebodies (1954) Charles Addams, My Crowd (1970) |
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| A spot drawing by Garth Williams and a cartoon by Charles Addams |
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| "All right, children, a nice big sneer, now." "I'm sorry, sonny. We've run out of candy." Charles Addams, Homebodies (1954) |
Oh, why not?
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| Spot drawing Garth Williams The New Yorker, June 9, 1951, p. 36 |
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