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Children's Book & Magazine Illustration
1
Joan walsh anglund (1926-2021)
“To Be A Ballerina.”
Together, group of 3 storyboard illustrations for pages 28 through 33 of A Bedtime Book by Anglund (New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993). Watercolor and blue pen background on paper with acetate overlay, which has text pastedowns and is printed with image details. 210x364 mm; 8¼x14¼ inches, on 12x18-inch sheet. Unsigned. Taped to matte and archivally framed.
Provenance: Acquired by current owner directly from the artist.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
2
Clare beaton (1947- )
“The Wheels on the Bus.”
Alternate version of illustration for rhyme of the same title, published in Beaton’s Playtime Rhymes for Little People (Cambridge: Barefoot Books, Inc., 2001), pages 56-57. Felt, striped cloth, thread, beads, and buttons. 250x450 mm; 10x17¾ inches. Signed “Clare Beaton” in lower left image (in thread). Float mounted and framed. A copy of the book accompanies the lot.
Estimate
$600 – $900
3
Clare beaton (1947- )
“There Was A Crooked Man.”
Illustration for rhyme of the same title, published in Beaton’s Nursery Rhymes (Cambridge: Barefoot Books, Inc., 2010), pages 3-4. Felt, thread, and beads. 280x380 mm; 11x19 inches. Signed “Clare Beaton” in lower right image (in thread). Float mounted and framed. A copy of the book accompanies the lot.
Estimate
$600 – $900
4
Ludwig bemelmans (1898-1962)
“Parque Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro.”
Probable concept sketch for the Ferris wheel in Madeline and the Gypsies by Bemelmans (New York: Viking Press, 1959). Ink on paper adhered to board. 500x650 mm; 19¾x25½ inches (sheet). Signed “Bemelmans” in pencil and initialed “L.B.” in ink in lower center image, dated “Rio 10.M.58” at lower right. Titled “Parque Shanghai” at upper left and “Madeline & Gypsies / Made in France” at lower left.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
5
Marcia brown (1918-2015)
“A good stone soup should have cabbage…”
Illustration intended for Stone Soup by Brown (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947). Pen, ink and watercolor on thin board. 190x385 mm; 7½x15 inches, on 11x17¼-inch sheet. Not signed. Hinged to board with matte and archivally framed. A copy of a later edition of the book accompanies the lot.
Provenance: Acquired by current owner from Illustration House, February 1996.
Brown's retelling of the traditional folk tale was selected as a Caldecott Honor Book in 1948. Though the composition is nearly identical, numerous details in the final published illustration differ.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
6
Mark buehner (1959- )
“Dingaling Pizza.”
Illustration for A Job for Wittilda by Caralyn Buehner (New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1993). Oil over acrylic on masonite panel. 320x300 mm; 12¾x11¾ inches. Signed “M. Buehner” in lower left image, again on verso, and with artist’s stamp on unattached backing paper. Laid into matte and archivally framed.
Provenance: Acquired by current owner from Every Picture Tells a Story, February 1999.
The book won the Children’s Book Council Children’s Choice Award in 1994, and the Utah Children’s Choice Award in 1997.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
7
Albert prentis button (1868-1931)
A Young Dick Turpin.
Illustration for an unidentified publication. Watercolor, graphite, and pencil on stiff paper mounted to board. 330x517 mm; 13x20½ inches. Signed and dated “Albert Prentice Button 1920” in graphite, lower left image. Laid into burnished gold wood frame.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
8
Harrison cady (1877-1970)
“‘Pooh!’ exclaimed Reddy Fox. ‘Who’s afraid of that fellow?’”
Illustration for page 10 of The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1916). Ink, ink wash, and gouache on board. 305x233 mm; 12x9 inches (image), on 22½x14-inch board. Signed “Harrison Cady” in lower left image and captioned in lower margin with “Prickly Porky” in upper margin. Laid into matte and archivally framed. A copy of the aforementioned 1916 edition of the book accompanies the lot, along with a 1943 edition in which the illustration in the lot is not pictured (Don Mills, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart, Limited, 1943).
Provenance: Acquired by current owner from Illustration House, Inc.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
9
Tony chen (1929- )
“Adam and Eve.”
Illustration for The Illustrated Children’s Bible by Sandol Stoddard (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983), page 16. A cropped version of the illustration was subsequently published in A Child’s First Bible by Sandol Stoddard (New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1991). Watercolor over graphite on paper mounted to larger sheet. 330x244 mm; 13x9½ inches, on 14¼x10-inch sheet mounted to larger sheet. Signed “Tony Chen” and dated 1984 in lower right image.
Estimate
$400 – $600
10
Walter crane (1845-1915)
“The Song of Sixpence Picture Book.”
Full cover design created for the John Lane re-issue of this title from the George Routledge Picture Books series of the 1870s (London & New York: John Lane, circa 1909). White gouache on blue paper. 235x240 mm; 9¼x9½ inches, on 10½x9¾-inch sheet. Front cover with Crane's monogram near lower center image and on spine at lower left, float mounted with stepped matte. Rear cover is darker blue paper, with Crane's and publisher's monograms, taped to matte. The two framed together (rear cover on back of frame).
Provenance: Laurie E. Deval, associate of Percy H. Muir at Elkin Matthews Ltd. booksellers, London; purchased by Maurice Sendak, circa 1960s; gifted by Maurice Sendak to Lynn Caponera; private collection, New York.
The artwork once hung on Sendak's wall in his private retreat farmhouse (Cambridge, New York).
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
11
Tomie de paola (1934-2020)
“I love you, Sun, I love you, Moon.”
Double-page spread for title page of the book of the same title by Karen Pandell (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1994). Watercolor on paper. 145x328 mm; 5¾x13 inches, on 6½x14½-inch sheet. Signed “de Paola” in lower right image. Hinged to window matte. Provenance: Cove Gallery; private collection.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
12
Alexandra day [sandra louise woodward darling] (1941- )
“…see them picnic on their holiday.”
Painting after illustration published in The Teddy Bears’ Picnic by Jimmy Kennedy (New York: Green Tiger Press, 1983). Egg tempera on paper. 510x700 mm; 20x27½ inches, on 21¾x29¼-inch sheet. Signed “Alexandra Day” in lower right image. Taped to matte and framed. A copy of the book accompanies the lot.
Provenance: Acquired by current owner from Every Picture Tells A Story, April 1998.
The full caption reads “Watch them, catch them unawares/And see them picnic on their holiday/See them gaily gad about.”
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
13
Roger duvoisin (1904-1980)
“A Doll for Marie.”
Together, group of 3 preliminary studies for a book of the same title by Louise Fatio (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957). Mixed media, including ink and charcoal on paper, one with added color in gouache. Image sizes vary, all on 11¾x15¾-inch sheets. Unsigned. Hinged to boards with window mattes.
Group includes: “And while the dogs ran off fighting over the dress, the antique doll lay on the sidewalk in her underwear, a horrible situation for such a fancy doll;” “Marie sewed new underwear for the doll, a cotton dress, and a pair of slacks for cold weather;” “She had a little girl to love her, to kiss her good night and tuck her into bed.”
Estimate
$600 – $900
14
Michael foreman (1938- )
“Toad the Terror, The Traffic-Queller.”
Double-page illustration for pages 106 to 107 of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (London: Pavilion Books, 2001). Watercolor over graphite on paper. 195x435 mm; 7¾x17¼ inches, on 15½x20½-inch sheet. Signed “Michael Foreman” in lower left image. Hinged to board with matte and archivally framed. A copy of the book signed by Foreman accompanies the lot.
Provenance: Acquired by current owner from Chris Beetles, Ltd., November 2001.
Exhibited: Chris Beetles, Ltd,. The British Art of Illustration 1900-2001; The Twentieth Century.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
15
George garland (20th century)
“Heroes and Heroines of Many Lands.”
Together, incomplete group of 11 illustrations from the book of the same title by Jay Strong (New York: Hart Pub. Co., 1965). Graphite and charcoal (some with white gouache) on paper; all either stapled or taped to board. Image and sheet sizes vary, most about 160x260 mm; 6¼x10¼ inches, on 9½x12¾-inch sheets. A copy of the book accompanies the lot. Unsigned. Not dated.
Group includes: “…Horatius right deftly turned the blow” (“Horatius,” page 26),“Eliezer…stabbed the elephant to death” (“The Maccabees,” pages 44-45), “…fought in public…against…wild beasts…” (“Spartacus,” pages 52-53), “Joan and her army attacked Orleans” (“Joan of Arc,” pages 70-71), “Water! Water or I die!” (“Sir Philip Sidney,” pages 74-75), “…Vincent de Paul pulled at the heavy oars…” (“Vincent de Paul,” page 84), “Then he rode into the fray, and the Polish peasants rushed to follow him” (“Thaddeus Kosciuszko,” pages 90-91), “On O’Higgins drove them, on and on – straight for the Spanish lines” (“Bernardo O’Higgins,” pages 110-111), “As she stepped into the compound, she gasped with horror” (“Florence Nightingale,” pages 120-121), “Doctor Livingstone, I presume,” said Henry Stanley…” (“David Livingstone,” pages 134-135), “…she preached to the rough hardy men…” (“Evangeline Booth,” pages 154-155).
Estimate
$500 – $750
16
Roy gerrard (1935-1997)
Relaxing by the Pool.
Double-page spread for pages 6 and 7 of Jocasta Carr, Movie Star by Gerrard (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992). Watercolor, acrylic, and ink over graphite on paper. 228x430 mm; 9x17 inches, on 13¼x20¼-inch sheet. Signed “Gerrard” in lower right image. Hinged to board with matte and archivally framed.
Provenance: Acquired by current owner from Elizabeth Stone Gallery, December 1999.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
17
Hardie gramatky (1907-1979)
“The Wondrous World of Little Toot.”
Preliminary sketch for book advertisement featuring “Little Toot” and his friends in various scenes. Tempera, graphite, and ink on board. 282x225 mm; 11x8¾ inches. Signed “Hardie Gramatky” in upper center image. Not dated. Float mounted and archivally framed. Not removed from frame for inspection.
Provenance: Acquired by current owner from Illustration House, Inc.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
18
Eric gurney (1910-1992)
“The Digging-est Dog.”
Together, 29 illustrations for the cover, endpapers, and nearly complete interior pages for book of the same title by Al Perkins (New York: Random House, 1967). Primarily pen and ink over blue pencil on paper, some with collaged elements and correction fluid. Full sheets measure 345x480 mm; 13¾x19 inches. All sheets signed “E. Gurney” in lower right image. Cornered to pages in spiral-bound portfolio. With registration marks, page numbers, and scattered printer’s notes in margins. Lot excludes title page, pages 8-9, 16-17, 18-19, and 30-31. A copy of the book, a storyboard of the cover with printed pastedowns, and an additional color sketch for the cover with printing notations accompany the lot.
Provenance: Acquired by current owner from Illustration House, Inc.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
19
Michael hague (1948- )
“U is for Ursula, a quite useless bear…”
Illustration for page 24 of Alphabears: An ABC Book by Kathleen Hague (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1984). Pen, ink, watercolor, and gouache over graphite on board. 248x235 mm; 9¾x9¼ inches, on 11¾x11½-inch board. Signed “Michael Hague” in lower left image. Laid into matte and archivally framed. A copy of the book accompanies the lot.
Provenance: Acquired by current owner from Aleph-Bet Books, February 1998.
The full published caption reads “U is for Ursula, a quite useless bear/Who seems to do nothing but just sit and stare.”
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
20
Georg hallensleben (1958- )
“Close Your Eyes.”
Front and back cover illustrations for book of the same title by Kate Banks (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002), with their labels on frame backing. Acrylic on thin glossy paper. Front cover is 345x325 mm; 13½x13 inches. Back cover is 357x324 mm; 14x12¾ inches. Both titled, signed “G. Hallensleben,” and dated 2001 on verso. Hinged to board; matted together and archivally framed. A copy of the book accompanies the lot.
Provenance: Acquired by current owner from Storyopolis, August 2003.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
21
Mary haverfield (20th century)
“Mocha loved little goldfish!”
Illustration for pages 24 and 25 of Mocha the Real Doctor by Jane Roberts Wood (Albany, Texas: Bright Sky Press, 2003). Watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil on thick paper. 250x470 mm; 9¾x18½ inches, on 13x21½-inch sheet. Signed “M. Haverfield” in lower right margin. Hinged to board with matte and archivally framed. A copy of the book signed by Jane Roberts Wood accompanies the lot.
Provenance: Acquired by the current owner directly from The Artist, 2004.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
22
Will hillenbrand (1960- )
“Sam Sunday and the Mystery at the Ocean Beach Hotel.”
Illustration for the cover and pages 6-7 for book of the same title by Robyn Supraner (New York: Viking, 1996). Mixed media, including watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper. 415x415 mm; 16¼x16¼ inches, on 17½x18-inch sheet. Signed “Will Hillenbrand” and dated [19]95 in lower right image. Float mounted and archivally framed.
Provenance: Acquired by the current owner from Hillenbrand & Rosen, August 1997.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
23
Steven kellogg (1941-)
“Tallyho, Pinkerton!”
Dust jacket illustration for book of the same title by Kellogg (New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1982). Mixed media, including ink, watercolor, and acrylic over graphite on thin board. 274x215 mm; 10¾x8½ inches, on 12¾x10¾-inch sheet. Signed “Steven Kellogg” and titled “Jacket art for Tallyho Pinkerton” in graphite in lower margin. Taped to matte and archivally framed. Accompanied by a signed and inscribed copy of Pinkerton, Behave! by Kellogg (New York: Dial Books for Young Readers,1979). The book’s inscription reads “For our friend Fiona from [sketch of Pinkerton] and Steve Kellogg.”
Provenance: Acquired by current owner from D.C.T. Auction, 2007.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
