Sale 2495 - Illustration Art, December 6, 2018

89 c VANESSA BELL. “Elizabeth Barrett Browning Reading.” Design for “Flush. A Biography” by Virginia Woolf (London: Hogarth Press, 1933). Graphite on paper. 7x4 1 / 2 inches, image, on 7x9-inch sheet. Framed. Provenance: Patricia and Donald Oresman, New York; Bloomsbury Books; to current owner. Exhibited: “Bloomsbury: Recent Acquisitions,” May 15-June 11, 1999, Davis & Langdale Co, Inc., New York; listed as entry 175 and exhibited in “‘A Room of their Own’-The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections,” Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2008. [2,000/3,000] 90 c LUDWIG BEMELMANS. The Recital. Illustration of a gathering crowd in a city interior, for an unknown project. Graphite and watercolor on paper. 352x452 mm; 14x17 3 / 4 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right image. Paper slightly wavy, adhesive on verso. Ex-collection Charles Stern, actor and lyricist, best known for his collaborations with Leonard Bernstein. [3,000/4,000] 89 90