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Modell, Franklyn
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description
- An excellent archive of original drawings by the long-time New Yorker cartoonist, ca 1946-2012.
- ink,paper
285 pen-and-ink, wash, and watercolor drawings on paper (2 in color), ranging in size from 222 x 303 mm to 457 x 594 mm, each matted and the many captioned within matte below image, the many with tear sheets affixed to verso of matte, some with additional archival materials, with approx 256 having been published in The New Yorker, 13 in Playboy, 1 in the Harvard Business Review, 1 in the Buddhist Review, and 12 being unattributed. Several marked-up for layout in pencil in the margins, several others with Playboy copyright stamp in margin or to verso.
A fine retrospective collection of the art of New Yorker mainstay Frank Modell (1917-2016) spanning roughly his entire career, most notable his fifty-year New Yorker run (1946-1997). Modell's career began blossoming as early as the late 1940s, publishing in the New Yorker during the decades when cartoons were still very much the draw.
A fine retrospective collection of the art of New Yorker mainstay Frank Modell (1917-2016) spanning roughly his entire career, most notable his fifty-year New Yorker run (1946-1997). Modell's career began blossoming as early as the late 1940s, publishing in the New Yorker during the decades when cartoons were still very much the draw.