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KURT SCHNURR.
“`Twas the Night Before `X’ Mas.” Pen, ink, wash, and zipatone on paper. 482x820 mm;
19x32
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4
inches, image. Original art for center spread of “Screw. The Sex Review,”
December 22, 1980. Signed lower right.Tipped to matte. A copy of the printed version,
with color added (as published) is included. A classic Screw magazine holiday-themed
spread featuring a very raunchy orgy in Santa’s workshop.
[400/600]
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VIRGIL ROSS.
Bugs Bunny. Pencil on paper model drawings. 235x305 mm; 9
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4
x12 inches, untrimmed
sheet. 16 portraits of Bugs in various expressions ranging from perplexion to hysteria to
his characteristic cool. Overall soft creasing. Signed “Virg” lower right. Provenance: ex-
collection Jerry C. Caggiano.
[200/300]
Ross spent some 30 years as one ofWarner Brothers’ animation artists; and he remains the member
of the studio most closely associated with Bugs Bunny.
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