Sale 2495 - Illustration Art, December 6, 2018

170 c LOUIS-MAURICE BOUTET DE MONVEL. Cupid Hunting. Fan design, commissioned for his fantasy series Games of Love, circa 1889. Watercolor on paper laid to thick board. 305x584 mm; 12x23 inches, irregular, on 15 3 / 4 x26 3 / 4 - inch board. Signed “M.B. de Monvel” in lower right image. Exhibited: “Maurice Boutet de Monvel: Master of French Illustration and Portraiture,” Washington, D.C.: The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 1987. [3,000/4,000] 171 c WILLIAM (GUILLERMO) BOLIN. “Poor Pierrot.” Study for the cover of Vanity Fair, published July 1920. Gouache on paper. 514x419 mm; 20 1 / 4 x16 1 / 2 inches. Signed “Bolin” in lower right image. Paper is slightly cockled. Hinged to matte. [1,500/2,500] 170 171