At a local bookstore earlier this month, I found a signed copy of Kafka Does Stand-Up: Cartoons on Books and Writers (2023) by Sidney Harris. It's a little scuffed but at $9, I figured why not? It's fairly new and, truthfully, I had not heard of it. The book lists twenty-five other cartoon collections by Harris, so maybe I shouldn't be so surprised that I haven't kept up.
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Richard Taylor's illustration The Metamorphosis gives us a cartoonist's interpretation of the opening scene of Franz Kafka's 1915 novella. Taylor renders the face of the "monstrous vermin" of the book as something akin to cute. The original art was sold on May 2 at Heritage Auctions. It had previously been sold at Swann Galleries in 2022.
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| Richard Taylor Heritage Auctions listing of May 2, 2025 |
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| Richard Taylor Heritage Auctions item description |
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In the Swann Illustration Art sale of December 15, 2022, the very same artwork was sold for $600, or $750 with the buyer's premium.
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| Richard Taylor Swann Galleries sale of December 15, 2022 |
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| Peter Kuper Signed, inscribed, sketched, and dated 2018
Scan by Tom Bloom
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| Peter Kuper Kafkaesque, 2017
Scan by Tom Bloom
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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 |
