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MARILEE HEYER.
“The Magic Boots.”Watercolor and pencil with washed board. 356x267 mm; 14x10
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inches, image; 425x324 mm; 16
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x12
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inches, board. Signed M. Heyer in lower right and
titled in lower margin. Illustration for Heyer’s book The Weaving of a Dream, NewYork:
Viking Kestrel, 1986.
[1,200/1,800]
Heyer’s meticulously detailed image of the magic boots given to the protagonist Leje, from her first book,
TheWeaving of a Dream, a retelling of the classic Chinese folktale which is still in print.