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CHARLES ADDAMS.
Cupid cleaning window.
Watercolor on paper. 405x280 mm; 16x11 inches. Signed lower right. Few areas of color
bleed. Published April 16, 1960, as The NewYorker cover.
[5,000/7,500]
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CONSTANTIN ALAJÁLOV.
“Standing Room Only.”
Tempera on illustration board. 345x235 mm; 13
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x9
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inches, image. Signed lower right
with a Presentation inscription “To Elinor and Martin Bush.” Wonderful depiction of
vexed dinner patrons glaring at blithely unaware or uncaring couple lingering well past
dessert. Printers marks in the margins on recto; penciled date and exhibition label filled
out in the artist's hand on verso. Published as The NewYorker cover, October 21, 1944.
[3,000/4,000]
Exhibited in Philadelphia at The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts in 1945 at the
Forty-ThirdWater Color and Print Exhibition.
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