Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

271 c HILARY KNIGHT (1926-) A Moon Bed for Edna. Watercolor and mixed media collage on white wove paper. 11 1 / 4 x11 5 / 8 inches, 28.5x29.6 cm. Signed in purple crayon, titled in silver paint and dated in black ink, lower right recto. 2017. [1,200/1,800] Knight is the well-known illustrator of the Eloise series. In order to depict Dame Edna, he took inspiration from the cover of the LP for a 1930s operetta featuring the Hungarian-born soprano Gitta Alpár on a moon bed.