Cornet Player: Jean-Jacques Sempé for Lee Lorenz

By 2001, Lee Lorenz was no longer working as cartoon editor for The New Yorker, but he still played the cornet with his jazz band and he was still friends with many cartoonists, including Frenchman Jean-Jacques Sempé. Un peu de Paris (A Little Bit of Paris) was published in September of 2001. The following month, Sempé dedicated a copy of the book to Lorenz, including an ink drawing of a cornet player at a window in the Hotel Aramis.

Jean-Jacques Sempé
eBay listing ended July 22, 2023

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Jean-jacques-Sempe-Original-Drawing-in-UN-PEU-DE-PARIS-Softcover-to-Lee-Lorenz-/125898137104?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l44720.c10&nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true

The new owner, Carbonnieux, has posted this acquisition on a French-language website here.

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Cornet Player: Saul Steinberg for Lee Lorenz

Lee Lorenz (1932-2022) was the art editor of The New Yorker from 1973 to 1993 and then the cartoon editor through 1997. Outside of working hours, he played cornet with his group, the Creole Cookin' Jazz Band. At some point, cartoonist Saul Steinberg honored his editor's musicianship with a small drawing of a cornet player. The Lorenz estate sold the drawing at auction on May 7.

Saul Steinberg
Fairfield Auctions, May 7, 2023

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/152128088_saul-steinberg

The sketch made for Lorenz recalls Steinberg's earlier drawings of musicians and their instruments published in The New Yorker of February 12, 1955.

Drawings by Saul Steinberg

https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1955-02-12/flipbook/032/

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