A POKE AT PICASSO
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RICHARD TAYLOR.
Group of 3 cartoons about modern art.
Pencil on paper, likely for The New Yorker or Playboy. 425x349 mm; 16
3
/
4
x13
3
/
4
inches,
sheets. Signed lower right. Scattered light soiling and edgewear but images clean. Circa
1950.
[400/600]
“
A Mr. Picasso to See You, Sir” * “No, nothing’s been taken” * Untitled (man starting at
Picasso portrait leaves with cubist-set eyes).
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254
CALDERESQUE
255
●
RICHARD TAYLOR.
Group of 4 cartoon roughs about modern
sculpture.
Pencil on paper preliminary drawings for
the final cartoons, likely for The New
Yorker or Playboy. 425x349 mm;
16
3
/
4
x13
3
/
4
inches, sheets. Signed in ink,
lower margins. Scattered soiling, creasing
and edgewear. Circa 1950.
[500/750]
“
By God, Margaret, you’ve gone too (underline)
far!” (artist’s stamp in upper left margin) *
“Watch it! — there are one or two adjustments
I’ve got to make.” * “ . . . of course, to me, it’s
just an amusing toy.” (creases with tears, affect-
ing image) * Untitled. Elderly woman in
Victorian parlor with huge Calder sculpture
hanging from ceiling). Taylor was good friends
with sculptor Alexander Calder and he cleverly
incorporated social reception of modern art into
his cartoons.
