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Sale 2556 | Lot 114
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Sale 2556 - Lot 114
Portrait of Whitney Darrow, Jr. as an old man. Graphite sketch on paper. 178x178 mm; 7x7 inches (image with signature) on 11 1/2x9-inch paper. Signed in lower right margin. Archivally tipped to window matte and framed.
Provenance: Estate of Albert Dorne; thence to private collection, Westport, CT.
Rockwell and Dorne were founding members of The Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut, the art correspondence course institution that trained a generation of illustrators. Darrow, famous for his New Yorker cartoons, lived in Westport and was friends with both artists.
Condition:
Clear drawing on clean paper in very good condition. Laid into frame; not mounted or cornered to any backing.
Additional note on provenance:
The consignor and his family were close friends with the Dorne and Dohanos families in CT and Albert Dorne gifted this to him long ago. As such, he never sought a COA (the Rockwell Museum does not issue them) and it has never left their home.
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