Peggy Bacon: Particularly Afraid of Each Other on Fridays

"Particularly afraid of each other on Fridays" is an original book illustration by Peggy Bacon (1895-1987) for Jerre Mangione's Mount Allegro: A Memoir of Italian American Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942). The artwork was offered at Swann Galleries in 2021 with an estimate of $600 to $900. There it went unsold. Last month the same drawing was listed at Weiss Auctions with a lower estimate of $400 to $600. There it did find a buyer . . . for a hammer price of $200.

Peggy Bacon
Weiss Auctions listing of November 15, 2023

https://weissauctions.nextlot.com/auctions/1497215/lots/22686903

As mentioned above, this work by Bacon, a printmaker and  well-known New Yorker cartoonist, was earlier offered by Swann Galleries in the summer Illustration Art sale:

https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/PEGGY-BACON-(1895-1987)-Particularly-afraid-of-each-other-on?saleno=2574&lotNo=68&refNo=782382

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