Sale 2480 - Illustration Art, June 5, 2018

1 c SAMUEL NELSON ABBOTT. At the Train Station. Advertisement for Hart, Schaffner, & Marx which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1922. Oil on canvas. 692x1054 mm; 27 1 / 4 x41 1 / 2 inches, on 34x50-inch stretchers bars. Unsigned. Some craquelure, abrasion in upper margin not affecting image. Framed. [7,000/10,000] “Good overcoats save your money. You’ll pay more for a good one than a poor one; but it will cost less. The saving is in the service, not in the price. Be sure that this name is in it: Hart, Schaffner & Marx.” 2 c LUDWIG BEMELMANS. “Agreed! No whiskey anywhere is more deluxe than Walker’s DeLuxe.” Alternative version for a Walker’s DeLuxe advertisement, 1957; the final features an older, more seasoned waiter. Pen, ink, watercolor, and gouache on board. 572x438 mm; 18 1 / 2 x17 1 / 4 inches, on 22 1 / 2 x21 1 / 2 -inch board. Signed “Bemelmans” in lower image. Stray artist’s marks in margins. Matted; framed. [10,000/15,000] 1