SEARLE | "Crossed Paths: Edgar Allan Poe meets Ernest Hemingway", preliminary ink drawing, framed and glazed

The Property of the late John Payne

SEARLE, RONALD

"Crossed Paths: Edgar Allan Poe meets Ernest Hemingway"

340 by 445mm., pen and ink drawing, signed lower right "Ronald Searle", inscribed with title, mounted, framed and glazed

A preliminary drawing for Searle's series of 'Crossed Paths' for The New Yorker magazine (later collected within Marquis de Sade meets Goody two-shoes: a few crossed paths & treasured moments, 1994). The finished drawing appeared in The New Yorker for 6 May 1991.

PROVENANCE:

Chris Beetles Limited (label)