Property from a Private California Collection
George Hughes
Mannequin
Auction Closed
May 20, 08:59 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private California Collection
George Hughes
1907 - 1990
Mannequin
signed Hughes- (lower left)
oil on paperboard
23 ⅞ by 19 ⅛ in.
60.6 by 48.6 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, 1 March 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. 233, illustrated in color
The present work was published as the cover illustration of the March 1st, 1952 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.