Sale 2495 - Illustration Art, December 6, 2018

4 c LUDWIG BEMELMANS. “After Everybody had been Fed.” Illustration for Bemelmans’s “Madeline in London” (New York: Viking, 1961). Gouache, watercolor, and ink on board. 260x382 mm; 10 1 / 4 x15 inches. Signed in ink, lower right image, captioned in lower margin, and with artist’s stamp in right margin. In original painted wood and glass frame from Hammer Galleries. [30,000/40,000] a bright and colorful illustration from bemelmans ’ s final madeline book featuring Miss Clavel and the girls dancing around Pepito’s birthday cake. In the story, the girls jet off to London from Paris to surprise Pepito (son of the Spanish Ambassador stationed there) who is lonely for them and wishes to explore the great city with his friends for his birthday. In the printed book, the caption is altered from the one here. There it reads “Let’s celebrate a lovely day.” 5 c LUDWIG BEMELMANS. “And Everyone was in his Bed.” Illustration for Bemelmans’s “Madeline in London” (New York: Viking, 1961). Gouache, watercolor, and ink on board. 285x330 mm; 11 1 / 4 x13 inches. Signed in ink, lower right image, captioned in lower margin, and with artist’s stamp in right margin. In original painted wood and glass frame from Hammer Galleries. [30,000/40,000] a charming illustration from bemelmans ’ s final madeline book showing Miss Clavel bidding her charges good night. The image reflects the famous opening line of the first Madeline book: “In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines / Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines / In two straight lines they broke their bread / And brushed their teeth and went to bed...” In the printed book, the caption is altered from the one here. There it reads: “Everyone had been well fed” which is similar to the caption in the preceding original illustration (lot 4). Bemelmans’s written caption on this piece is printed beneath the following image in the book showing Pepito sleeping.