Sale 2495 - Illustration Art, December 6, 2018

48 c DIANE STANLEY. “Birdsong Lullaby.” Illustration for Stanley’s book of the same name (New York: William Morrow, 1985). Gouache, transparent watercolor, colored pencil, and ink on paper. 270x317 mm; 10 3 / 4 x12 1 / 2 inches, image, on 13x15-inch sheet. Signed and captioned by Stanley in lower margin, and with notes to printer. Tipped to matte; framed. [1,000/1,500] A beautiful, ethereal image of the story’s main character, a little girl who dreams of what it would be like to become a bird. 48