- 1019
Searle, Ronald
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description
- Spine Defective, ca. 1989
- ink, watercolor and graphite
Original ink, watercolor and graphite drawing (12 1/4 x 9 in.; 311 x 228 mm), signed in ink ("Ronald Searle"). Matted, glazed and framed; not examined out of frame. Accompanied by a humorous ink drawing by Crockett Johnson, Winged Figure (7 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.; 197 x 165 mm), depicting a businessman with dragonfly wings. Matted, glazed and framed; lightly browned at edges.
Provenance
acquisition: G. Heywood Hill, 1989 (Searle)
Catalogue Note
This drawing is reproduced on page 65 of Searle's Slight Foxed—But Still Desirable: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting (1989).