Lot 90
  • 90

Benatar, Molly.

Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
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Description

  • "There's Magic In It"Ink and watercolour, 11½ x 10½"[Dust-jacket design for volume by Edith L. Elias, 1928]
  • [Dust-jacket design for volume by Edith L. Elias, 1928]
  • ink and watercolour drawing

  • 11 1/2 x 10 1/2"
  • 292.1 x 266.7 mm
"There's Magic In It"



11 3/8 by 10 1/2 in., fine ink and watercolour drawing heightened with gouache, signed 'Molly Benatar' lower right, matted, glazed and framed (22 3/4 by 21 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Exhibited: Museum of Cartoon Art, Rye Brook, NY, "Childhood Enchantments", April–June 1989

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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Catalogue Note

The dust-jacket spine and upper cover design for Edith I. Elias' There's Magic In It, first published by Chambers in 1928.