Lot 124
  • 124

Rackham, Arthur

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Rackham, Arthur
  • "One of the Paths...that have Made Themselves"
  • ink and watercolour on paper
(11 3/8 x 9 in.; 290 x 225 mm) ink and watercolor drawing, signed in lower right, laid down on cardboard; some glue residue from old mounting along bottom edge.

Provenance

Dr. George A. McLemore, Jr., New York, New York—Mrs. Ernest G. Vietor, Greenwich, Connecticut

Condition

see cataloguing
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Catalogue Note

Original post-publication colored illustration from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens: From the Little White Bird by J. M. Barrie, published in London by Hodder & Stoughton (1912).

The black-and-white print version of this illustration appeared opposite page thirteen in the book.  Labels from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts accompany the work, which was submitted in 1939.