In 1952, Albert Einstein of the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton politely refused to engage with Albert K. Bender, the president of the International Flying Saucer Bureau in Bridgeport. In 2023, bidders politely refused to engage at auction with the typed letter, signed. It's not a bad piece at all, quite the historical footnote. And the letter should increase greatly in value once the flying saucers reveal themselves.
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| Albert Einstein RR Auction ended December 6, 2023 |
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If you hang around New York enough, you'll find traces of the great cartoonists of yesteryear all over. Last night, after dinner on West 36th Street at Keens Steakhouse—the apostrophe has been abandoned to history—we admired a display that was a small part of the world's largest collection of churchwarden pipes. The chop house's past patrons included more than 90,000 members of the Pipe Club, whose pipes were registered and stored on the premises by a pipe warden, and dutifully retrieved when the customer returned by pipe boys. Many twentieth century luminaries were members of this club: Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Albert Einstein, Enrico Caruso, Will Rogers, Babe Ruth, Robert Benchley—and cartoonist Rube Goldberg. I've given his pipe it's own photograph:
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Two of the original cartoons by Richard Oldden recently offered for sale on eBay had been published in The New Yorker. They were both included in one lot and generated greater bidder interest than the other groupings of four cartoons from unknown publications. These drawings were published in 1969 and 1971. They depict moments of inspiration as experienced by dinosaur and artist. Neither has a caption but one has an unlikely thought bubble.
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| Versos with stamps and markings from the artist and from The New Yorker |
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| Richard Oldden eBay listing ended May 6, 2023 |
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| Richard Oldden eBay item description  |
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| Richard Oldden eBay bid history Six bidders place a total of ten bids and, as we so often see, the last bid wins. |
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| Richard Oldden The New Yorker, November 8, 1969, p. 203 |
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| Richard Oldden Original art The New Yorker, November 8, 1969, p. 203 |
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| A spot drawing by Chon Day and a cartoon by Richard Oldden |
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| Richard Oldden The New Yorker, March 20, 1971, p. 44 |
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| Richard Oldden Original art The New Yorker, March 20, 1971, p. 44 |
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| Cartoons by Richard Oldden and Robert Day |
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| Reader spot Chon Day The New Yorker, November 8, 1969, p. 203 |
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"Hey! Isn't that ours?" Robert Day The New Yorker, March 20, 1971, p. 45 |
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
—Albert Einstein
T-shirt available at Landau in Princeton |
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| Andy Warhol, The Marx Brothers, 8 of 10 from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, 1980 |
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| The Marx Brothers in "A Night in Casablanca" (1946) Warhol's Source Photo |
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Andy Warhol, Louis Brandeis, 2 of 10 from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, 1980
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| Andy Warhol, Sarah Bernhardt, 1 of 10 from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, 1980 |
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| Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein, 4 of 10 from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, 1980 |
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Andy Warhol, Martin Buber, 3 of 10 from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, 1980
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Andy Warhol, Sigmund Freud, 5 of 10 from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, 1980 |
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Andy Warhol, George Gershwin, 6 of 10 from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, 1980 |
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Andy Warhol, Franz Kafka, 7 of 10 from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, 1980
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Andy Warhol, Golda Meir, 9 of 10 from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, 1980 |
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| Andy Warhol, Gertrude Stein, 10 of 10 from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, 1980 |
