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PAULINE BAYNES.
Habbitrot.
Twelve illustrations for Beatrix Potter, Country Tales, London: Penguin, 1987, pages 41-63.
Watercolors on illustration board. Each 110x90 mm; 4
1
/
2
x3
1
/
2
inches. Titles in pencil
beneath watercolor.
[1,500/2,500]
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LUDWIG BEMELMANS.
“Faster and faster.”
Pen and ink with pencil and wash illustration of Madeline, Miss Clavel, and the girls
crammed into a taxi, rushing the driver to the train station, for Madeline and the Gypsies
for McCall’s magazine, 260x546 mm; 10
1
/
4
x21
1
/
2
inches, unevenly cut thick white drawing
paper, glue remnants, white wash edits, and printer’s marks on recto, Bemelmans’s faint
pencil sketches on verso showing the Ferris Wheel, elephant, tree, and tent found in the
published book edition. Loose from cardboard which is signed in pencil by Bemelmans:
“Gypsies, Bemelmans McCalls [sic]” originally attached to artwork. [NewYork, 1958].
[4,000/6,000]
Madeline and the Gypsies was originally issued as a Christmas booklet that came with the December
1958 issue of McCall’s. This drawing preceeds those published in the book byViking, 1959.
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