Showing posts with label rough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rough. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Ronald Searle: A Beefeater Is Served

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In a 1996  Ronald Searle  ink and watercolor drawing, we see a beefeater in a restaurant being served dinner by a bull. The meal is not very...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Ludwig Bemelmans: Fowl Play

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A drawing with color by Ludwig Bemelmans is a preliminary sketch for an illustration, or so we are informed by a pencil notation on the ver...
Friday, August 1, 2025

James Mulligan: It Takes a One to Know One

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An original drawing by cartoonist James Mulligan was sold in May by Dennis Holzman Antiques of Cohoes, New York. It is apparently a rough a...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

How to Murder a Rich Uncle: Charles Addams Preliminary Art

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An original drawing by Charles Addams is currently listed on eBay by an established seller with the all-too-convenient name masteraddamsgre...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

William Hamilton: Six Rough Drawings

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Yesterday, six rough drawings by cartoonist William Hamilton were sold at auction by Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates. One of them is fram...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Mary Gibson: Our Little Suburb

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John Lindgren writes of his mother, the cartoonist Mary Gibson.  She was born in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1914 and passed away in Palm Coa...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Al Hirschfeld: A Preliminary Sketch of Tony Azito from Joseph Papp's "The Pirates of Penzance"

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Tony Azito (1948-1995) became famous seemingly overnight playing the Police Sergeant in Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival pr...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Peter Arno: Romancing the Natives

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On June 15, Swann Galleries sold two preliminary drawings by The New Yorker's Peter Arno. Neither is signed, but both are unmistakabl...