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Sale 2556 | Lot 165
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Sale 2556 - Lot 165
Bicycle Menagerie. Cartoon for The New Yorker, published November 10, 1962, with their copyright label on verso. Ink with collaged elements on paper. 187x395 mm; 7 1/2x15 3/4 inches, on 11x16 1/2-inch sheet. Signed "F. B. Modell" in lower left image. See condition report. Taped to window matte and framed.
Condition:
Small punctures to sheet in various areas, including on cat's ear, on bird, beneath bicycle seat, on and above woman's face, and above knee. Areas of discoloration, including above and below scarf, as well as on and around dog, where the dried adhesive for the collage is showing through. Dried and discolored adhesive residue from copyright label on verso is showing through to recto in lower margin. Some wrinkling to sheet, which has border of matte burn. Small 1-inch tear at upper left corner. Various printer's notations on verso with areas of discolored adhesive residue and remnants of kraft paper where past overlay was once adhered.
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