111
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AUGUST BLESER, JR.
Lawyer’s office scene with pensive woman.
Gouache on board, showing two men and a
woman in discussion. Image approximately
14x34 inches on larger board. Signed upper
right.Nd.
[500/750]
112
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GEORGE BOOTH.
“This meeting was called to order...”
Ink and wash on stiff paper for a New
Yorker cartoon. 250x225 mm; 10x9 inches
on larger sheet. New Yorker stamps on
verso. Signed “Booth” lower right and
additionally signed in full beneath the
caption.
[400/600]
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113
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PAUL BRANSOM.
“All Round
Protection.”
3 color roughs in crayon, pencil, and ink
for a poster, depicting a cat, a canary and a
can of Esso Oil. Each 160 x 355mm;
6
1
/
2
x13
1
/
2
inches, Signed in ink, professionally
matted and framed together in archival
acrylic and black wooden frame, matte
window showing “Roughs for Esso Oil
Poster” to right of top image. 2 loose sheets
with charcoal studies for same design laid
into envelope attached to verso, images
measure 110x245mm; 4
1
/
2
x9
3
/
4
inches,
Initialed. Circa 1940.
[1,000/1,500]
Popular book and magazine illustrator Bransom
was known as the “Dean of America’s Wildlife
Artists.” His best known animal illustrations for
books were Jack London’s The Call of the Wild
and Kenneth Grahame’sTheWind in theWillows.
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