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EDWARD GOREY.
Penny Candy.
Watercolor and ink on paper. 209x184 mm; 8
1
/
2
x7
1
/
4
inches, image, professionally matted
and framed in archival acrylic and black resin. [NewYork, 1970]
[4,000/6,000]
An original ink and watercolor study for an alternate cover design of the children’s book by
Edward Fenton (NewYork: Hold, Rinehart andWinston, 1970). Penny Candy is a fantasy
story patterned on the familiar rhyme “Tinker Tailor . . .” the counting game, nursery rhyme,
and fortune telling song traditionally played in England.
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EDWARD GOREY.
True Brit.
Pencil, pen, ink, and watercolor on paper.
253x184mm; 10x7
1
/
4
inches, sheet, wide
margins, Signed by Edward Gorey in pencil,
lower right, and titled by him in ink, lower
left, with short ink and visible erased pencil
measurement lines at sides, tipped to old mat
with unobtrusive glue remnants along top
edge. Np, nd.
[2,500/3,500]
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