Sale 2495 - Illustration Art, December 6, 2018

41 c LOUIS RHEAD. “`None of your scoffs,’ returned the Yellow Dwarf, `I warn you not to rouse my anger.’” Illustration for the story “The YellowDwarf ” by Madame d’Aulnoy, as published on page 347 of the The Fairy Book edited by Dinah Maria Mulock (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1922). Watercolor and ink on paper mounted to board. 253x172 mm; 10x6 3 / 4 inches on 12x9- inch board. Signed in lower right image. [2,000/3,000] 42 c MAURICE SENDAK. Six Dancing Mice. Stage scrim drawing for a production of “The Nutcracker” performed by the Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, 1983. Graphite on tracing paper. 286x533 mm; 11 1 / 4 x21 inches, on 13 3 / 4 x24-inch sheet. Signed and dated, “April 24, [19]83” in lower right margin. Archivally cornered to matte; framed. Exhibited at “The Art of Maurice Sendak: Inside and Out,” Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, November 22, 2002 - January 12, 2003. [20,000/30,000] 41 42