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WILLIAM E. HILL.
Society gents ogling reclining woman.
Mixed media, heightened with white. 365x545 mm; 14
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4
x21
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2
inches. Signed lower left
and dated [19]14. Handsomely matted and framed. Nd.
[1,200/1,800]
Hill drew the dust jacket art for the first editions of F. Scott Fitzgerald’sThis Side of Paradise
and Flappers and Philosophers. His work also appeared in Life and Puck and in his own
popular weekly page of illustrations, titled “Among Us Mortals,” in the Sunday NewYork
Tribune, that ran in the 1920s.
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AL HIRSCHFELD.
Fanny Brice Singing “Modernistic Moe,”
in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. Pen and ink on illustration board.Approximately 330x190 mm;
13x7
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2
inches. Signed lower right, and inscribed “To Bernie Sobel and his ‘Ziegfeldiana’
collection.” Repaired chip upper left and lower right corners; 1 inch diagonal tear upper left,
age toned. 1936.
[3,000/4,000]
“Modernistic Moe” was an antic burlesque of modern dancer Martha Graham. Published in
The Herald Tribune on February 23, 1936.
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