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HILARY KNIGHT.
“The morning rush to the bathroom.”
Pen and ink highlighted with red watercolor. Illustration for an unidentified magazine.
110x165 mm; 4
1
/
2
x6
1
/
2
inches, image. Signed, lower left. Matted and framed.This amusingly
lithe drawing dates from the time Knight was illustrating the famous Eloise books. The
raucous trio could be Eloise’s cousins. Late 1950s.
[2,000/3,000]
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CHARLES LABORDE.
American City scene.
Gouache on board, 391x290 mm;
15
1
/
2
x11
3
/
8
inches, sheet (image ruled in
pencil to 12x8
1
/
2
inches), a pastiche of
American themes including waving flags,
chorus girls, skyscrapers, an eagle holding
a dollar coin, gangsters, a dancing hobo,
and a giddy beer stein-wielding man.
Verso blank, archivally matted with corner
slots, framed. Circa 1930.
[3,000/5,000]
Though Laborde is best known for his satirical
and humorous city views of Paris, he traveled to
major international cities in the 1930s and may
have done this brightly colored, amusing work,
believed to be unpublished, while in NewYork.
