Sunday, February 25, 2024

Barbara Shermund: All Politics is Local

The third and final lot of original Barbara Shermund color cartoon art from the collection of Angela Gross Folk was published on a full page in Esquire's January 1948 issue. The work was sold on February 22 in Lincoln Park for a hammer price of $700, the high estimate. Amusingly, the auction house misread the caption as "400 mean little men, a senate investigation."

"You mean little me? A senate investigation?"
Barbara Shermund
Original cartoon art
Esquire, January 1948, p. 73

"You mean little me? A senate investigation?"
Barbara Shermund
Original cartoon art
Esquire, January 1948, p. 73

Detail

Barbara Shermund's signature

Handwritten caption: "You mean little me? A senate investigation?"



Verso

Received by Esquire, Inc., on July 30, 1947 and paid on July 30, 1947

"Pg. 81," but actually published on page 73

Barbara Shermund
Willow Auction House listing ended February 22, 2024

Barbara Shermund
Willow Auction House listing ended February 22, 2024
"400 mean little men . . ."



"You mean little me? A senate investigation?"
Esquire,
January 1948, p. 73


"You mean little me? A senate investigation?"
Barbara Shermund
Original cartoon art
Esquire, January 1948, p. 73

https://classic.esquire.com/article/1948/1/1/you-mean-little-me-a-senate-investigation












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