Sale 2495 - Illustration Art, December 6, 2018

39 c WILLY POGÁNY. “A Mad Tea-Party.” Headpiece illustration published in Chapter 7, page 99 in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (New York: Dutton, 1929). Pen and ink on paper with collaged lettering. 178x178 mm; 7x7 inches, on 13 1 / 4 x11-inch paper, Signed in lower right image. Mounted to stiff board and matted. [800/1,200] A marvelous image of Pogány’s Mad Hatter and White Rabbit, from his very collectible Art Deco-illustrated edition of Alice. 40 c H.A. REY. (HANS AUGUSTO REYERSBACH.) “Do you want to get across?” Illustration for Rey’s story “Cecily G. and the 9 Monkeys” (Paris: Gallimard, 1939; New York: Houghton Miff lin, 1941). Color pencil, charcoal, and watercolor with wash on stiff paper. 260x198 mm; 10 1 / 4 x7 3 / 4 inches, on 12 1 / 2 x9 1 / 2 -inch sheet. Unsigned, but with penciled page number and framing indication (in French), lower margin. Tipped to window matte; framed. [10,000/15,000] a well - known illustration featuring the children ’ s storybook icon , curious george , from the first book to introduce him . H.A. Rey first published this work with Gallimard in 1939, titled with Cecily’s original name: “Rafi et les 9 singes.” The tale follows the adventures of Cecily Giraffe (“Cecily G.”) as she meets a monkey, Mother Pamplemoose, and her eight children, one of whom is particularly curious. George’s popularity among readers prompted Rey to begin work on an illustrated manuscript for the first separate Curious George title. Soon after production began in the spring of 1940, Hitler ordered troops across the low country of France, culminating in the Nazi invasion of Paris on June 14th. Having waited too long to leave the city, and finding no available mode of transportation, Rey assembled bicycles from scrap parts, on which he fled with his wife and collaborator, Margaret, and their manuscript, just hours before the siege began. The Reys eventually arrived and settled in New York City where they soon began a long, successful, and exclusive partnership with Houghton Mifflin, who published the first American edition of Cecily G. and the 9 Monkeys in 1941 and continued the popular series featuring the beloved monkey. 39