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JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG.
“WhatYou Lack, Mister, is Guts!”Watercolor, ink, and wash on paper. 584x737 mm; 23x29
inches. Signed and titled in ink, lower margin. Illustration for the story “Lovelorn” in
Liberty Magazine, page 24, September 16, 1933 issue. Publisher’s pencil annotations in
lower margins and stamps on verso. Matted and framed.
[4,000/6,000]
An excellent, large-scale illustration by Flagg.The chastised man, slumped at a table, and the sassy
redhead delivering his dressing-down, are in a restaurant reminiscent of Sardis, with four publicity
photos on the wall (of Jeff Machamer, “Sport”Ward, Ilse Hoffmann, and Arthur William Brown)
all “drawn” and initialed by Flagg.