Swann Galleries - Illustration Art - Sale 2423, September 29, 2016

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23 ● STEVAN DOHANOS.
“Sundown:White Empires Fight for Africa.” Illustration for the story of the same name
by Barré Lyndon, published in The Saturday Evening Post, August 23, 1941. Mixed media
on board. 340x740 mm; 131/2x29 inches, image. Signed in upper left. Matte burn, smudging
and printer’s marks to blank margins. Matted. [1,000/2,000]
24 ● ERTÉ. [ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF.]
Phoenix Rising from the Flames. Gouache on paper. 178x241 mm; 7x9 1/2 inches, on
9 1/2x12-inch sheet. Signed “Erté” in right margin.Adhesive residue and remnants of prior
matting on verso, stamped “Composition originale” on verso, tiny soil spot in central
image. Nd, circa 1920s. [3,000/4,000]
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