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Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description
- Joseph Christian Leyendecker
- Easter Baby
- signed JCLeyendecker (lower right)
- oil on canvas
- 26 1/8 by 20 inches
- (66.4 by 50.8 cm)
- Painted in 1909.
Provenance
Private collection, New York, circa 1950
By descent to the present owners (his great granddaughters)
By descent to the present owners (his great granddaughters)
Literature
The Saturday Evening Post, April 10, 1909, cover illustration (© SEPS licensed by Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved.)
Michael Schau, J.C. Leyendecker, New York, 1974, p. 172, illustrated
Jan Cohn, Covers of “The Saturday Evening Post:" Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America’s Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, illustrated p. 40
Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, J.C. Leyendecker: American Imagist, New York, 2008, illustrated p. 109
Michael Schau, J.C. Leyendecker, New York, 1974, p. 172, illustrated
Jan Cohn, Covers of “The Saturday Evening Post:" Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America’s Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, illustrated p. 40
Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, J.C. Leyendecker: American Imagist, New York, 2008, illustrated p. 109