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LUDWIG BEMELMANS.
Three framed drawings.
Watercolor and ink images: “An OldWaiter” * “ButYou Stay Here” * untitled voluptuous
plant in vase. 196x120 mm; 7
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4
x4
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4
inches, image, Signed lower margins, professionally
matted and framed in acrylic and gold wooden frames, scuffed.
[1,500/2,000]
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LUDWIG BEMELMANS.
Three framed drawings.
“Invalid” (an injured rabbit in an arm sling) * Blindfolded donkey kneeling before an Ionic
column * Mexican boy in hat hugging a small child with rooster in foreground, Inscribed “For
Tonio” upper margin. 196x120 mm; 7
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4
x4
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4
inches, image, Signed lower margins, professionally
matted and framed in acrylic and gold wooden frames, scuffed.
[1,500/2,000]
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LUDWIG BEMELMANS.
Holiday House.
Watercolor, gouache and ink wash on
illustration board. 700x550 mm; 27x21
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2
inches. Published as the Holiday Magazine
cover May 1951, with rubberstamp on
verso. Signed lower right.
[5,000/7,500]
A summer fête inside and on the grounds of a
building in Darien, CT designed by the noted
Modernist architect John M. Johansen. The
design suggests fellow “Harvard Five”
member Philip Johnson’s minimalist classic
“Glass House” in nearby New Canaan.
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