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FRED MARCELLINO.
The Golden Notebook.
Airbrush, watercolor, and colored pencil on stiff card. 224x140 mm; 8
3
/
4
x5
1
/
2
inches.
Original cover art for the Doris Lessing novel, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
Mounted on illustration board, in original matte and flap with artist’s label.
[5,000/7,500]
Marcellino was commissioned to produce the cover art for the 1984 reissue of Lessing’s novel that was
originally published in 1962.This edition solidified the reputation of the book as a modern classic, and
Marcellino’s design of the four colored notebooks at the core of the novel remain inextricably linked to
the text itself for readers of a later generation. Time Magazine included the novel in its 100 Best
English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 and it has remained in print since its publication. In
2007 Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
