Showing posts with label Adam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adam. Show all posts

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Sidney Harris: The Guy Without the Tail?

In its April 23 Mainstream Illustration sale, Heritage Auctions sold an original Playboy magazine cartoon that first appeared in the December 1967 issue. The artist is Sidney Harris and the primates are making some important advances.

"The guy without the tail? Calls himself Adam."
Sidney Harris
Original art
Playboy, December 1967, p. 275

"The guy without the tail? Calls himself Adam."
Sidney Harris
Original art
Playboy, December 1967, p. 275

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Sidney Harris
Heritage Auctions sale of April 23, 2024

Sidney Harris
Heritage Auctions item description



Note:  Readers are kindly asked to check under their beds for a stray copy of the December 1967 issue of Playboy. I would like to be able to post a scan of this cartoon by Sidney Harris as it appeared on page 275. I tried using the Internet Archive, but I'm just not evolved enough.




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Friday, January 3, 2020

Lee Lorenz: In the Beginning

In the Beginning is apparently the second color lithographic edition created for the Circle Fine Art Corporation by New Yorker art editor Lee Lorenz. It was struck in January 1990 at the American Atelier in New York and released in November of that year. It bears the edition code LLG 101, whereas Weight Watcher was LLG 100. The lithograph is accompanied by documentation which describes how the edition was created. The lithograph itself is of course a play on Michelangelo's Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Lee Lorenz
In the Beginning
No. 264/300, 1990



Lee Lorenz
In the Beginning
No. 264/300, 1990




Lee Lorenz
eBay Listing Accessed January 1, 2019


Lee Lorenz
eBay Item Description Accessed January 1, 2019



Note:  Evidently this is redrawn from a New Yorker cartoon, but when did it appear in the magazine? My search skills have come up short today.

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