Showing posts with label Bonhams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bonhams. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Al Hirschfeld: Chita Rivera, Jerry Orbach, and Gwen Verdon in "Chicago"

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Yesterday, items from the estate of Chita Rivera were sold at auction by Bonhams, New York. One of the mementos of her storied theater care...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Dali Draws Harpo

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Surrealist Salvador Dali made a pencil drawing of comedian Harpo Marx in February of 1937. Harpo did not get to keep the art, but he was r...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Charles E. Martin Original New Yorker Cover Art

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Charles E. Martin's  cover for The New Yorker's issue of February 1, 2023 depicts the Metropolitan Museum of Art bathed in early mo...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

James Thurber: On Freedom

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“A woman [Mrs. Eliza Powel of Philadelphia] asked Dr. Franklin well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy[?]—A republic replied t...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Robert Weber: The Motion Picture the World Has Been Waiting For

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People fortunate enough to have their work featured as the subject of a New Yorker cartoon just might decide to purchase the original art f...
Friday, April 12, 2019

Saul Steinberg: Café Scene

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Saul Steinberg's Café Scene of 1949 is strangely haunting. The three figures inhabit the room but appear unnaturally stiff and isolat...
Monday, December 24, 2018

Ronald Searle: Commercial Christmas

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Many of Ronald Searle's Christmas illustrations captured a special luminous joy, but he could also be critical of the holiday's co...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Dialogue of Sardinia and Paris: Saul Steinberg Original New Yorker Art

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My little survey of original New Yorker cover art continues with this disarming example by the brilliant Saul Steinberg. Needless to say,...