Property from a Private California Collection
George Hughes
Dog License
Session begins in
May 20, 06:00 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Bid
25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private California Collection
George Hughes
1907 - 1990
Dog License
signed Hughes- (lower left)
oil on Masonite
33 ½ by 28 in.
85.1 by 71.1 cm.
Executed in 1952.
Martin Ackerman, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above circa 1968)
Thence by descent to the present owner
The Saturday Evening Post, 21 June 1952, illustrated in color on the cover
Jan Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post: Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America’s Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, p. 234, illustrated in color
The present work was published as the cover illustration of the June 21st, 1952 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
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